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What Is Art Good For?
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What Is Art Good For?
Explore art in the age of revolution, war and profound scientific change.
Color and Light
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Color and Light
Explore light and color in art in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy.
Paradise on Earth
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Paradise on Earth
Explore one of humanity’s deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature.
Renaissances
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Renaissances
Travel east and west— to Renaissance Italy and the contemporaneous Islamic empires.
Encounters
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Encounters
See how art became the great interface when distant cultures met for the first time.
God and Art
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God and Art
Consider how religion has inspired art and art has inspired divine representation.
How Do We Look?
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How Do We Look?
Explore how we look at the human body in art.
The Cult of Progress
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The Cult of Progress
Examine the rise and fall of “progress” as an ideology.
Official Trailer
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Official Trailer
Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in forging of humanity.
Teaser Trailer
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Teaser Trailer
Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in forging of humanity.
Art in Darkness
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Art in Darkness
In December 1942, a Jewish teacher brings art supplies to children held by Nazis.
Manet Twists the Conventions of Art
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Manet Twists the Conventions of Art
Edouard Manet created a masterpiece famed as a masterclass in visual subversion.
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