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Green-tinted woven wood covers the corners and leads to the middle where a woman in an orange cloak made from various wooden objects such as a wagon wheel holds a candle and looks to her right at a man entering into the room from a door. The man is wearing a blue cloak and is also comprised of wooden objects. In his right hand, he holds a white flower. Behind them, a clock hangs on the wall, and in the left corner, a blackbird perches on a chair.

From Remedios Varo to Laurie Simmons, a New Exhibition Forwards a Feminist View of the Uncanny

February 4, 2025

a bead-and sequin-embellished fabric artwork of a lively scene of numerous people dancing and gathering around a fire in a "Caiman Wood Ceremony"

Embellished Vodou Flags by Myrlande Constant Spotlight ‘The Spiritual World of Haiti’

January 28, 2025

an embossed page of crustacean shapes from a collection of pictures for the blind (tactile graphics), created by M. Kunz, Director of the Illzach School near Mulhouse, France

Turn-of-the-Century Tactile Graphics Illustrate Nature for People Who Are Blind

January 23, 2025

an excerpt in cursive handwriting of an application for a Revolutionary War soldier named Charles Hart

Practice Your Cursive as a Citizen Archivist and Preserve Thousands of Historic Documents

January 21, 2025

a collection of images (posters, illustrations, prints) in a grid

A Searchable Public Domain Archive Collects 10,000+ Images Free for Use

January 15, 2025

the interior of a kiln tomb in Saqqara of a doctor named Tetinebefou, with brightly colored walls and relief carvings in stone

In Saqqara, Archaeologists Uncover the Sumptuous 4,100-Year-Old Tomb of a Royal Physician

January 15, 2025

a still from an animated short of two canvas sneakers with flowers blossoming out of them, set against a black background

Empty Sneakers Dance in a Stop-Motion Film Honoring the 20th Anniversary of a Buenos Aires Tragedy

January 14, 2025

an installation view of abstract crocheted wire sculptures by Ruth Asawa

‘Doing Is Living’ Highlights Five Decades of Ruth Asawa’s Biomorphic Wire Sculptures

January 7, 2025

a surreal oil painting of a woman in a pink dress, standing in a gray room holding a string, connected to an owl, with a painting in the background of a castle tower in a landscape

Gertrude Abercrombie’s Autobiographical Surrealism Traverses Dreams and Reality

January 6, 2025

the interior of Ron Gittins' apartment in Birkenhead, England, featuring a very ornate, hand-sculpted fireplace of a bull's head with murals all around on the walls

Near Liverpool, a One-of-a-Kind Art Environment by Ron Gittins Is Saved

January 3, 2025

a quilted figurative portrait of a group of Black women lounging in the sun on a sandy riverbank

In Paintings and Quilts, Stephen Towns Spotlights Black Leisure in the Jim Crow South

January 2, 2025

a detail of an installation of various handmade fur and seal skin mittens illuminated in a gallery

Sonya Kelliher-Combs Merges Collective Knowledge and Native Alaskan Heritage in Mixed Media

December 26, 2024

a large-scale installation in the desert resembling the Hollywood sign that reads "INDIAN LAND"

Nicholas Galanin Hews Visions of the Present From Indigenous Knowledge, Land, and Memory

December 24, 2024

a tray of various shapes of ceramic pieces glazed with different colors

Thousands of Josiah Wedgwood’s Glazed Ceramic Samples Paved the Way for 18th-Century Ingenuity

December 18, 2024

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