Art
Carter Snead on “What It Means to Be Human”
O. Carter Snead, director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, has penned an acclaimed new book, What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics....
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Rome: What Does it All Mean? The Painting and its Subject
Finally, we come to terms with the School of Athens. How was it painted, and what does it mean? How do how it was painted and what it means intersect? Watch the short videos...
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Cocktail with a Curator: Joseph Becherer
Let’s mix things up! Join us for Cocktail with a Curator, a program that toasts amazing works of art with deliciously themed cocktails. This month spend time with Joseph...
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The Nativity
Although we don’t know who painted this work, we do know it was created in the 1500s by an Italian artist who copied an original painting by Jacopo Bassano. At the time, Italy...
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An Irish Christmas at Kylemore
Travel to Kylemore Abbey — virtually — this December for some Christmas cheer with readings, performances, and recipes. The Kylemore Book Club will celebrate the season with...
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Touchstones of the Twentieth Century: A History of Photography at the University of Notre Dame
The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame has placed on view a landmark exhibition to coincide with the publication of a two-volume catalogue documenting the history...
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CFAAL 397 (HTR)
Jessica Eaton is a Canadian photographer whose work explores the components of the photographic process itself. Light, color, time, and the capacities of lenses, shutters, film...
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Pictographic War Record
Mee-nah-tsee-us or White Swan was a member of the Apsáalooke or Crow tribe which resides in what is today western Montana. It is believed he was born around 1851 and died when he...
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Untitled by Agustin Fernandez
Agustin Fernandez was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1928. He received his early artistic training there at the Academy of San Alejandro but left Cuba soon after graduating for New York...
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The Blue Carborundum Robe
Jim Dine has long been on the cutting edge of the Contemporary art scene from his early days in New York, working with artist Claes Oldenburg, his work on Happenings and...
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Covered Server
The ceramic artist Margarete Heymann-Marks Löbenstein or Margarete Heymann-Marks or Margarete Heymann-Löbenstein or Grete Marks may be known by many different names around the...
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Laocoön and His Sons
In the late 17th and 18th centuries, the craze for Greek and Roman antiquities was so intense that some sculptors made their reputations restoring fragments of ancient sculpture...
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