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Federal Hall National Memorial
Meta Warrick Fuller, Emancipation
Anita Fields, Elements of Being
The queen of heaven: Jan van Eyck, Lucca Madonna
Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party
Raven Custalow, Puttawus
Philip Johnson and John Burgee, The AT&T Building (NYC)
William Dyce, Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858
Tony Smith, Die
Theaster Gates, Glass Lantern Slide Pavilion
A Royal Hunt in Silver and Gold
Piero della Francesca, Madonna and Child with Saints, Angels, and Federico da Montefeltro
Hōryūji, the world's oldest wooden architecture
Hughie Lee-Smith, The Walls
Archibald John Motley Jr., Bronzeville at Night
Romanesque architecture explained
Michelangelo Lovelace, Streetology
A bronze Buddha’s journey
JooYoung Choi, Journey to the Cosmic Womb
A pen case worthy of a prince
Karl Bodmer, expedition prints
Joan Snyder, Roxy Red Fugue
Kay WalkingStick, Peonies
Isamu Noguchi, Gregory (Effigy)
What is art provenance? A Getty Research Institute case study
A Buddhist Monk’s Dream Diary
El Greco, The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
Shizu Saldamando, Sandra and Tammy, Hollywood Forever
Georgia O'Keeffe, A Piece of Wood II/From Knot of Wood
Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas