Reliquary of Sainte-Foy, 9th century with later additions, gold, silver, gemstones, and enamel over wood, Romanesque France Shiva as Lord of Dance (nataraja), Hindu, India (Tamil Nadu), Chola Dynasty, 11th century, cast bronze Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja) is a bronze sculpture from the Chola Dynasty in India. It is a Hindu sculpture from the 9th-13th century. The Reliquary of Sainte-Foy depicts a young girl who was martyred because she was killed when she was fighting for Christianity....

The Steerage , Alfred Stieglitz, 1907, photogravure, photography Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an American photographer who was determined to show that photography was an art medium. In the beginning, Stieglitz was the editor of Camera Notes , a journal of the Camera Club of New York. However, when the club started to become more restrictive, he and some others decided to leave and form the Photo-Succession , which aimed to place photography in the fine arts category, in 1902. ...

Horn Players, 1983, acrylic and oilstick on three canvas panels mounted on wood supports Just last month, I visited The Broad, a contemporary art museum in Los Angeles. There, they had a Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition that included a lot of his works from the 1980s. Basquiat was a classic Neo-Expressionist painter and New York native, a place in which he took great inspiration from. Born in 1960, Basquiat spent his childhood going to museums and studying fine art. Growing up in Brooklyn,...