Until recently, the rare diptych “The Crucifixion” and “The Last Judgment” (c. 1440-41) by Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441)—among the most beloved artworks in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art—was one ...

In 2003, when the Getty Museum acquired three images from the 15th-century manuscript Hours of Louis XII, its curators had a hunch that one of the pictures was incomplete. Their suspicions made sense: ...

If diptychs tend to call to mind 15th-century altarpieces cluttered with saints, it might be worth a visit to “Secondary Meanings: Figurative Diptychs” at the Zhou B Arts Center in Chicago. The new ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This square ivory diptych sundial is ...

At the halfway mark, Aly Muritiba’s “Deserto Particular” clicks into high gear. There’s a change of scenery, yes; we move from the chilly South of Brazil to its arid Northeast. And there’s a change in ...

Monkman’s alter-ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle—a supernatural, gender-fluid figure central to the artist’s oeuvre—is the protagonist of the paintings. She alludes to Indigenous traditions embracing ...

1In a review of Greta Gerwig’s 2019 film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (vols. 1&2, 1868/1869) published in the LGBTQ+ Condé Nast publication them, Michelle Kim writes: “It’s as though ...

Two little pieces of canvas slightly bigger than a man’s shirtfront last week raised the entire Metropolitan Museum of Art high in the list of the world’s repositories. Bursting with pride Director ...

Salvador Dalí has a face worth millions. Or at least a silhouette. The towering Surrealist’s diptych, depicting himself and his wife Gala with their “heads full of clouds,” is expected to sell for up ...

A view of Alfred Steiner's "Erased Schulnik (Diptych)" (2010) and "This Is Not a Work of Visual Art" (2010) at Norte Maar's "Guilty/(NOT)Guilty*" (photo courtesy Norte Maar) So far, the debate about ...

In this exhibition, internationally renowned photographer Toni Meneguzzo engages in a very contemporary language that suggests a unique relationship between Polaroid and the vibrancy of his latest ...