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A New Look at Old Masters is a prelude to the final reinstallation of the European paintings galleries (1250–1800), expected to take place in 2022

Announced just five days before it was to take effect, the lockdown coincided with the opening of several important exhibitions.

Featured Online Programs from National Portrait Gallery.

The two major Bern art museums Kunstmuseum Bern and Zentrum Paul Klee are presenting a first-class exhibition programme for 2021.

Celebrate the holidays at Hillwood! Festive décor and virtual programs add to the Christmas splendor.

Drawn primarily from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s rich holdings, Kandinsky traces all the aesthetic evolutions of one of the foremost artistic innovators of the early 20th century.

Due to rising regional and national cases related to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, all Smithsonian museums, including the National Zoo, will temporarily close to the public starting Monday, Nov. 23.

It is with great regret that we have to inform you that the Kunstmuseum Bern will remain closed due to the measures taken by the Canton of Berne to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

t is with great regret that we have to inform you that the Zentrum Paul Klee will remain closed due to the measures taken by the Canton of Berne to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

Until November 22nd, the Luxembourg Art Week / The Fair will take place through a fully digital, immersive and exhaustive 3D visit.

This week: the Strathmore Museum Shop Holiday Market, a fall garden update, and a video from Chief Curator Wilfried Zeisler.

During the tumultuous decades of the early twentieth century, graphic arts flourished in Great Britain as artists sought to portray quotidian life during the machine age with suitably modern techniques and approaches.

No one should believe that art history presents a fair view of artistic creation. Such is the case for the German artist Albrecht Altdorfer. The Louvre is therefore rehabilitating this genius.

This meditative self-portrait is part of a group of paintings made in 1911, in which the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi probed his identity as the "Poet of Light—of Quietude—of the Home."

Featured November Programs from National Portrait Gallery.

Hillwood is open! Stroll through the gardens, explore the mansion, and enjoy the special exhibition, Natural Beauties: Exquisite Works of Minerals and Gems, during regular operating hours, Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

In celebration of The Met's 150th anniversary in 2020, the Museum’s Department of Photographs will highlight the important role of gifts in developing its collection.The first of a two-part presentation that features recent and new gifts, many offered in honor of the sesquicentennial celebration and exhibited at the Museum for the first time, will be on view December 3, 2019–May 10, 2020.

Now on view, Pictures, Revisited takes a deep dive into The Met’s rich collection of contemporary photography to explore photographic strategies of visual appropriation.

The exhibition Photography’s Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection celebrates the remarkable ascendancy of photography in the last hundred years through the magnificent promised gift to The Met of more than 60 extraordinary photographs from Museum Trustee Ann Tenenbaum and her husband, Thomas H. Lee, in honor of the Museum’s 150th anniversary in 2020.

Between 1933 and 1942, The Metropolitan Museum of Art organized one of its especially noteworthy landmark educational initiatives to bring the Museum's collection to as many New Yorkers as possible.