Arts Aug 26 Art and agriculture meet in collaborative Colorado exhibition By John Yang, Lorna Baldwin
Arts Jan 21 Watch 4:52 How Polaroid pioneered the instant photography revolution The Polaroid camera bypassed the entire process of film development, thus providing photographers an immediate look at their work. Released for sale in 1948, the first version was an “instant” hit. Now, the museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology… By Jared Bowen, WGBH
Arts Dec 26 Watch 5:17 At rare J.M.W. Turner show, the watercolors are as fragile as they are many British painter J.M.W. Turner was both prolific and peripatetic, producing more than 30,000 watercolors during a lifetime in which he traveled throughout Europe. But these works are extremely susceptible to light damage and can be shown only once in a… By Jared Bowen, WGBH
Arts Dec 06 Watch 7:30 How van Gogh became van Gogh: Rare show presents artist alongside those who inspired him An exhibit at South Carolina's Columbia Museum of Art shows Vincent van Gogh in a new light. “Van Gogh and His Inspirations” presents the younger, wayward artist who learned from looking hard at the world -- and the work of… By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport
Arts Aug 12 Watch 8:12 Another look at N.C. Wyeth, American art patriarch N.C. Wyeth, who led a multi-generational family of American art royalty and inspired “Star Wars” creator George Lucas and “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin, gets a new look in an exhibition of his illustrations and paintings. Jeffrey Brown… By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport
Dec 04 Watch 6:10 The Met’s ‘Delacroix’ exhibit shows the artist in full “Delacroix,” a retrospective of the 19th century French painter Eugène Delacroix, is a blockbuster show running this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An ambitious Romantic, Delacroix is known for such paintings as “Women of Algiers” and is considered… Continue watching
May 05 Watch 4:19 Exhibit examines hidden meanings in art from Nazi Germany By Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green In landscapes, portraits and still lifes, German and Austrian artists in the 1930s through the outbreak of World War II risked their lives camouflaging heavy political symbols into conventional art forms. Now, "Before the Fall," an exhibit at New York… Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch 4:42 How artists have wrestled with nonstop news By PBS News Hour An exhibit at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles takes an artistic route when it comes to covering the news. “Breaking News” takes audiences to a time back before the Internet, often featuring artists who sought political as well as… Continue watching
Mar 08 Watch Finding Emily Dickinson in the power of her poetry By PBS News Hour Who was Emily Dickinson? A new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York takes a closer look at the iconic American cultural figure through her poems and the remnants of her life, and finds a less reclusive… Continue watching
Apr 22 Watch NBA’s Shaq Sizes Up Art World, With Works Large and Small The NBA's larger-than-life Shaquille O'Neal is making his mark on the art world with a new exhibit of art both large and small. Jeffrey Brown takes a look at the "Size Does Matter" exhibit that the basketball star helped curate. Continue watching