Look Closer: This Lizard Tells a Story
Maria Sibylla Merian’s pioneering nature painting captured animals as they were.
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The Morgan Library & Museum. 2001.10. Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978. The Vanity of Kings
How the ancient pharaohs attempted to preserve their legacies for eternity
Massimo Listri / Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Look Closer: Edward Steichen’s Sunflower
Before the photographer left painting behind forever, he attempted to refocus it on nature.
© 2026 The Estate of Edward Steichen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Look Closer: David Hockney’s Rules of Beauty
What the artist found in a corner of the Louvre
© Estate of David Hockney. Edition of 75. Photograph by Richard Schmidt. Look Closer: Pieter De Hooch’s Puzzle Box
What the painter, a contemporary of Vermeer, revealed and concealed in a beguiling 1663 work
PHAS / Universal Images Group / Getty What Are Frederic Church’s Stunning Landscapes Trying to Tell Us?
America’s first art star remains a mystery.
Metropolitan Museum of Art How Raphael Made It All Look So Easy
A Met exhibition devoted to the Renaissance painter shows the artist letting loose.
Ashmolean Museum / University of Oxford The Secrets of Indigenous Art
Major exhibitions are upending the way people understand Native American and Aboriginal artists.
© Emily Kam Kngwarray / Copyright Agency. Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York, 2026. How to Look at Paul Gauguin
He was misunderstood, then adored, then vilified. Who was he really?
Heritage Images / Getty The Man Who Owned 181 Renoirs
Albert Barnes believed in the liberating power of art—but you had to look at it his way.
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