Gerhard Richter was born today in 1932. Here is a short introductory essay from Smarthistory on a formative work, Uncle Rudy: smarthistory.org/gerhard-rich...

#DailyMegalith #TombTuesday Gwal y Filiast #Llanboidy #Carmarthenshire #Wales (2016)

smarthistory.org/jacopo-sanso... a new #Smarthistory essay by Dr. Letha Ch'ien on one of the most seen/overlooked #Renaissance buildings in #Italy #architecture #ArchitecturalHistory #Venice #Venetian

Chihil Sutun, a Safavid palace a new #Smarthistory essay by Dr. Samira Fathi #Safavid #Iran #architecture #architecturalhistory smarthistory.org/chihil-sutun/

youtu.be/G2xtG2Jm5AQ #aeronauts #art #arthistory #IndigenousFuturism #ceramics

youtu.be/UmCO5hai_Yo #Merlin #art #arthistory #magic #19thCentury #Britain

youtu.be/bj0CtjIUgkQ a new Smarthistory video #architecture #architecturalhistory #art #arthistory #UShistory #history #neoclassicism #GreekRevival

youtu.be/OjOLW8K7iaY Reimagining representations of emancipation 50 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, a sculpture by Meta Warrick Fuller commissioned by W. E. B. Du Bois #art #arthistory #emancipation #womenartists

After today, you might find a little solace in youtu.be/dSL8WQWdiKo #Osage #NativeAmerican #art #arthistory

And a view of the sanctuary www.flickr.com/photos/profz...

HH Richardson's Trinity Church magnificent interior is packed with glass (& painting) by John La Farge, Edward Burne-Johns (w/William Morris & Co), as well as others including Margaret Redmond Photoset: www.flickr.com/photos/profz... #CreativeCommons #architecture #HHRichardson

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party a new Smarthistory video #art #arthistory #feminism youtu.be/4amoxcedL_0

#artists #opportunity A.I.R. Gallery submit thru June 25 support A.I.R. by donating a postcard-sized work for its annual postcard show, Wish You Were Here. They're sold for $45 and all proceeds go to benefit A.I.R. and its mission to advance the work of women and non-binary artists

Cattedrale di Palermo, Palermo PA (Sicilia) 🇮🇹 Corona di Costanza d'Aragona, 1220-1222 ca, oro, argento d'orato e filigranato, smalti, perle, pietre policrome. emiliaromanica.com/2025/06/02/ 📷 @emilia_romanica　 20 agosto 2024

flic.kr/p/2r9FyxW detail from a new photo set just posted

Reclaiming cultural heritage one feather at a time Raven Custalow, Puttawus a new Smarthistory video youtu.be/lzQqHLU-s6c #art #arthistory #featherwork #NativeAmerican

Fresh Smarthistory! youtu.be/yGxPKaanF50 #postmodern #architecture #architecturalhistory #PhilipJohnson

Vefa Church-Mosque/Molla Gürani Mosque, a Middle Byzantine church traditionally identified as the church of St. Theodore Photos taken today

youtu.be/7Ac7MeP00Dk This little-known painting deserves more recognition #art #arthistory #landscape #Victorian #science #painting

"Why art history isn't like math" a new Smarthistory essay aimed at students and others unfamiliar with the Humanities: smarthistory.org/why-art-hist... #arthistory #humanities #education

Here's mine: flic.kr/p/2r8nuGv

New photo set: Dyce's Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858. Tate's own photo of this key work is out of focus and yellow. Why do museum's let this happen? Tate's (visible below): www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks... Compare with ours: flic.kr/p/2r8nuGv #Victorian #arthistory

Museums are critical civic spaces, centers for research, and for informal learning. But so often museum photos of their own collection are dark+gray, as if viewed through a scrim. One example: flic.kr/p/2r7KtUm (my photo w/ no special lights) vs www.clevelandart.org/art/1928.8 (the museum's) Why?

Good images help students fall in love with the study of art. Smarthistory makes 17,063 high-resolution photos of commonly taught works of art and architecture available for free w/a Creative Commons license for use by students and teachers: www.flickr.com/photos/profz... #art #arthistory #photos

An amazing photographer, Sebastião Salgado, had died. Learn about his work in this short video we made with LACMA, youtu.be/pjl7AzUwpeo

Catching up with essay submissions on this pre-holiday Friday. What a privilege to work with so many brilliant and generous scholars. Smarthistory has more than 3,500 essays authored by more than 800 art historians who want to tell you about the things they study. Coming soon, Safavid architecture!

glass slides as artifacts of art history's history new #Smarthistory video on a work by Theaster Gates youtu.be/uowxZdQizSg #art #arthistory #theCanon #reclaimed

That gorgeous Sasanian silver plate that catches your eye walking through the museum... youtu.be/Q6ZaE12zaaY #art #arthistory #smarthistory #Sasanian #Smithsonan #NMAA

And just published a moment ago youtu.be/BzCzFYoR9NM #7thCentury #architecture #arthistory #architecturalhistory

Smarthistory, a tiny not-for-profit, published 24 new videos and essays in the past month from the Romanesque to a Khmer Buddha to a Joe Overstreet made on the lower east side in 1970—all produced by art historians and all for free and with no ads, for you. explore: smarthistory.org #art

Hughie Lee-Smith, The Walls a new Smarthistory video youtu.be/kAMWnCP5v0A "What a beautiful and moving painting." –viewer comment #underappreciated #art #arthistory #smarthistory

Archibald John Motley Jr., Bronzeville at Night, 1949 a new Smarthistory video: youtu.be/wMzwo5uQcI8 #art #arthistory #smarthistory #Bronzeville #Chicago

youtu.be/j7ZhVtK6g9A brand new Smarthistory #art #architecture #Romanesque #Medieval #England

I was really looking forward to seeing the Portus Relief in detail at the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social, but the problem was that I couldn’t really *see* it when I got there. Not placing a highly reflective case opposite a bank of bright windows should be taught in Curator 101. Disappointing. 🏺

and to round out this little posting splurge, a wonderful work by JooYoung Choi that may make your Saturday happier, youtu.be/Qsz0AbbhiaQ

This stunning Khmer Buddha was made in Thailand and unearthed in Vietnam, youtu.be/DFDdtxCN0aE

From 1832–34, the artist Karl Bodmer documented Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied's expedition along the upper Missouri River, learn more... youtu.be/d-t72oPXw3s

There is even more new content: The Qajar Shah commissioned this beautifully decorated pen case, possibly as a gift for one of his sons. youtu.be/vXAmNXF8Qvw

This early Kay WalkingStick from 1969 reframes her later work: youtu.be/mts7BoWPt18 #art #arthistory #smarthistory

Join a 13th-century Buddhist monk as he comes upon the historical Buddha in his dream. Myōe Kōben, Dream Record (Yume no ki) with Dr. Frank Feltens, Curator of Japanese Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution smarthistory.org/myoe-koben-d...

Read this terrific article, written by the co-author of The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France! Her incisive reading of the painting charges beyond the standard airy representations of rococo art and is perfect for the classroom.

Need a little drop dead gorgeous Roman mosaic? Take a peek at the House of Neptune and Amphitrite at Herculaneum by Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay: smarthistory.org/neptune-amph...

Lots of wonderful new content is being published on smarthistory.org Antoine Watteau, The Pleasures of the Ball by Dr. Meredith Martin was published yesterday and explores the Rococo but unlike so much writing on the fête galante, does not ignore race: smarthistory.org/antoine-watt...

Isamu Noguchi, Gregory (Effigy) a new Smarthistory video: youtu.be/mlbM29X1v-k #art #arthistory #smarthistory #Noguchi #sculpture

Check out this new @smarthistory.bsky.social video about provenance using the Getty Provenance Index www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZWR...

What is art provenance? A Getty Research Institute case study and a new Smarthistory video: youtu.be/pZWRxUxghVY #art #arthistory #Smarthistory #Getty #GRI #provenance

A Buddhist Monk’s Dream Diary a new Smarthistory video: youtu.be/ehZAkNlzobw #art #arthistory #Smarthistory #dreaming #Buddhism #Siddhartha