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11/09/2024

Happy National STEM Day!

Today, we honor the innovative minds throughout history whose work laid the foundation for science, technology, engineering, and math as we know it. Among these achievements is the “astrolabe,” a groundbreaking tool that combined scientific precision with artistic craftsmanship.

Developed over a thousand years ago and refined by Islamic scholars, the astrolabe was an ancient analog computer used to measure the positions of stars, tell time, and calculate the heights of buildings or mountains. This versatile instrument became invaluable to explorers and astronomers, symbolizing how STEM connects us to the world and the universe beyond.

Check out astrolabes and more math and science innovations inside the “Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World,” on view through January 5, 2025.

Please note: Due to the staff and logistics necessary for this special exhibition, there is an additional charge ($5) for nonmembers, ages 7+. Members receive free admission. Advanced tickets are not required. For more information, visit the link in bio.

Featured: Astrolabe. Iraq, Baghdad, 315 AH (927–28). Brass; cast and engraved. The al-Sabah Collection, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, Kuwait, LNS 36 M.

11/09/2024

🔎 A la recherche de Balzac, dans les pas d’Auguste Rodin 👣

Pour créer son célèbre Monument à Balzac, Auguste Rodin ne s’est pas contenté d’imaginer. Pour tenter de retrouver le corps et les traits de l'écrivain disparu plus de 40 ans auparavant, il se rend en 1891 en Touraine, la terre natale de l’écrivain, avec cette idée que des types humains perdurent dans une même région. En arpentant les rues de Tours, il espère retrouver des corps et des visages qui ressemblent à l’écrivain. Il repère un charretier corpulent, Estager, qu’il fait poser, et dont il tire une série de masques et d'études de corps.

🎭 Les moulages et masques issus de cette étape clé de l'enquête que mènera Rodin pour représenter Balzac sont a découvrir dans l’exposition Corps In·visibles.

📸 © agence photographique du musée Rodin, Jérome Manoukian

11/09/2024

Families are Complicated.

French painter Edouard Manet's family certainly was, even by today's standards. Despite these complexities, the Manet family lived happily. They were the artist's most frequent models, a crucial source of financial and emotional support and creative inspiration.

In the first exhibition to explore the work of the “father of modernism” through the lens of his complex familial relationships, Manet: A Model Family at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from October 10, 2024 – January 20, 2025 sheds a new light on the life and masterpieces of Édouard Manet.

🔗 Learn more and get your tickets: https://go.gardnermuseum.org/3NkzkIf

11/09/2024

Les jeunes de moins de 26 ans vont pouvoir profiter du Musée d'Orsay lors de soirées gratuites, quelques jeudis soirs dans l'année, qui vont leur permettre de visiter les expositions du moment et d'assister à des performances artistiques.

10/31/2024

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10/09/2024

🐈‍⬛The Black Cat - an enduring symbol of bohemian Paris✨

The ‘Le Chat Noir’ (the black cat) poster, has been an iconic artwork for over a century. Created in 1896 by Swiss artist Théophile Steinlen, it was originally an advertisement for the first modern cabaret of the modern era - the ‘Le Chat Noir’ in Montmartre, which became a hub for artists and writers in late 19th-century Paris.

The cat’s sleek, mysterious form evokes an air of intrigue and rebellious creativity, embodying the avant-garde spirit of the era.

Steinlen’s work, more commercial than that of his peers, brought this bohemian world into the mainstream, turning the cat into a lasting cultural symbol.

🐈‍⬛Tournée du Chat Noir avec Rodolphe Salis, poster for ‘Cabaret du Chat Noir’ by Théophile Steinlen, 1896, Paris

10/08/2024

Melvin Sokolsky was inspired by The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch for this 1963 photograph.

He captured the French model Simone D’Aillencourt floating above Paris and New York in a giant plastic bubble. The complex shoot required a large team of creative collaborators and a crane to hoist the bubble into the air.

See it on display in our photographic exhibition Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection.

In partnership with

Melvin Sokolsky - Saint Germain, Paris, 1963 © Melvin Sokolsky, courtesy of Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

10/03/2024

Q: Do you know what San Francisco street Wayne Thiebaud depicted here?

A: This is a trick question! Thiebaud made many of these works from memory, referring less to any particular location than to his overall sense of the city.

In the cityscapes, he explored formal problems of proportion, the difference between size and scale, and spatial relationships. The paintings straddle a delicate balance between representation and abstraction. Thiebaud said, "There are many different viewpoints simultaneously. The San Francisco pictures being a kind of composite of several different things at once."

Listen to the audio guide to learn more: https://bit.ly/3zi3Pvm

[Wayne Thiebaud, "Sunset Streets," 1985, Collection SFMOMA, Purchase with the aid of funds from public subscription, William L. Gerstle Fund, Fund of the '80s, Clinton Walker Fund, and Thomas W. Weisel © Wayne Thiebaud Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY]