#city art museum

[spiritontheinternet]

[lionofchaeronea]

The Wedding Register, Edmund Blair Leighton, 1920

[oncanvas]

Central Park and the Plaza, William Anderson Coffin, 1917-18

Oil on canvas 24 ¼ x 29 ¼ in. (61.6 x 74.3 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

[sunnibits]

omg I almost forgot do you guys wanna see the artifact I came across at my local art museum like a month ago that almost made me fucking cry

[amnhnyc]

Meet Hawilkwalał Rebecca Baker-Grenier of the Kwakiuł, Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw, and Skwxwú7mesh First Nations. Rebecca is a fashion designer who debuted her first collection at New York Fashion Week in 2022 and sees “fashion as a living practice that is rooted in our art form, laws, and worldview.”

See her work in the Museum’s Northwest Coast Hall as part of the Grounded by Our Roots exhibition, which features extraordinary works by up-and-coming Indigenous artists who draw inspiration from their cultural traditions.

[flowersforfrancis]

[barbucomedie]

Statue of "The Creator" from Xochicalco, Mexico dated between 650 - 900 on display at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, Mexico

Photographs taken by myself 2024

[7pleiades7]

Allegory of Vigilance (c. 1772), (detail) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, 1732-1806), oil on canvas, 68.9 x 54.9 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

[craigularory-joe]

Day 9

[galina]

Got a membership at the Royal Academy of Art this year and in an effort to use it more I've been working there at the members' cafe – I'll never be over this architecture in this courtyard on the way in

[spiritontheinternet]

Saint Louis City Art Museum

[vizuart]

Edward Hopper - Office in a Small City (1953)

[marzipanandminutiae]

can "activists" please stop trying to fuck with the empty frames at the Gardner museum. this is the second time the museum has had to close early to keep that from happening

like. first of all, the art museum climate protests that have happened so far piss me off despite the fact that I agree with their overall goals, because the messages in interviews all boil down to "how DARE you VALUE ART when BAD THINGS ARE HAPPENING, ordinary museum-goer?!" but at least they've taken pains to not actually damage anything important (throwing soup on modern, sealed cases or glass barriers instead of the art itself, etc.)

the frames at the Gardner? are art in their own right. they are mostly very old and made by often-unacknowledged craftsmen who were incredibly talented. they're not the same as a modern barrier. AND they're there as a reminder of a time when some jerks stole art from the public so rich assholes could wall it up in private collections so only they got to enjoy it

like go puncture a CEO's tires or something that actually reaches the people responsible for this mess instead of ordinary humans (who probably already agree with you!) just trying to do the very Human Thing of appreciating art

EDIT: I double-checked, and last time their Thing was "why are people still talking about the Gardner heist, but NOBODY is talking about biodiversity loss?!?!?!"

which is just.

they are? just not usually in the same breath as an unsolved art theft case?

[nikswonderland]

paris aesthetics —

[brooklynmuseum]

“My work is timeless because it’s based on the beauty of the human body and the fascinating world we live in,” said Thierry Mugler.

Never one to shy away from daring endeavors, Mugler staged photoshoots in some of the world’s most breathtaking settings including: icebergs in Greenland, the White Sand of New Mexico, and the Tlalpan Chapel in Mexico City to name a few. 

Here, Claude Heidemeyer poses on the edge of the Chrysler Building for an aptly-named photograph, “Vertigo,” in 1988. Mugler’s keen eye as a director resulted in photographs and campaigns that helped to convey his exhilarating point of view.

See more of Mugler’s photography as part of Thierry Mugler: Couturissime on view now.

📷 Thierry Mugler (French, 1948–2022). Chrysler Building, New York, 1988. Claude Heidemeyer in “Vertigo” by Mugler, 1988. Photographic print, 35 11/16 × 23 7/8 in. (90.6 × 60.6 cm). Courtesy of Mugler Archives. © Thierry Mugler

[flowersforfrancis]