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For decades, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) has been working to revitalize the social, cultural, and economic strength of communities in the...

This collection of rare and exquisite textiles from Central, Northern and West Africa includes weavings from Ghana, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast; em...

Albrecht Durer's prints and drawings have inspired hundreds of artists, both during his life and after his death. Yet his talent as a painter and c...

During his lifetime, Dürer found tremendous success as a printmaker and painter, taking commissions from prominent figures such as Frederick the Wi...

For his largest solo museum exhibition, Alex Da Corte takes over all of MASS MoCA''s second-floor galleries, presenting a selection of existing wor...

A must-have for Alexander von Humboldt fans and botanic enthusiasts, this gorgeous collection of frameable posters of his studies is filled with na...

Recording Alexander von Humboldt''s historic expedition to the Americas and Cuba-hailed by many as the scientific discovery of America -these intr...

At the dawn of the 19th-century, the Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt was granted permission to charter an expedition to Spains colonies in...

Alice Neel was one of the great American painters of the twentieth century and a pioneer among women artists. A painter of people, landscape and st...

The leaves are blowing off the trees and the birds are flying south in Bustletown. Farmers are preparing the fields for winter and kids are back in...

Its springtime in this charming, busy town and there is a lot going on! A house gets a top-to-bottom spring cleaning and farm fields are being prep...

Its summer and that means flowers, picnics, thunderstorms, and bike rides. Its a busy time for construction workers, farmers, and house painters. P...

Winter has arrived and everywhere you look people are embracing the season. At home theres baking, reading, and sleeping in, while on the farm the ...

Alphonse Mucha is known largely for having originated Art Nouveau, when his poster of the actress Sarah Bernhardt became a legendary icon of the mo...

One of the most recognizable artists of his era, Amedeo Modigliani is also perhaps one of the least understood. In this thorough, yet refreshingly ...

For years, Britains much-loved gardener Monty Don has been leading us down all kinds of garden paths to show us why green spaces are vital to our w...

The real history of photography is a vast collection of inter- connected stories stretching from East Asia to West Africa, from New Zealand to Uzbe...

Upside-down mountains, volcanoes that spew bubble gum, a gentle humpback whale keeping an entire city afloat. These and other wonderful worlds may ...

Now in paperback, this dreamy, gorgeously detailed picture book leads children on a journey to impossible but wonderfully imagined places.Upside-do...

A passport to the world's most intriguing destinations, this book is a bounty of information and gorgeous illustrations that will spark wonder and ...

Affect is an essentially indefinable, largely non-conscious quality that correlates to the experience of diverse emotional and physiological states...

Andy Warhol embodied many of the paradoxes of postwar America. Emerging as a successful commercial artist during the heyday of Madison Avenue, Warh...

Throughout his career, Andy Warhol easily crossed the boundaries between fine art and graphic design; in fact, he made no distinction between art a...

This career-spanning exhibition catalog reveals the enormous artistic achievements-both individual and shared-of two of the greatest pioneers of tw...