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A Millennia-Long Fascination With Armor
The Worcester Art Museum’s reopening of its armor galleries goes far beyond the romance with medieval Europe.
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Worcester Art Museum Presents Faith Ringgold: Freedom to Say What I Please
Ringgold’s first solo exhibition in New England in nearly 15 years is centered around her story quilt “Picasso’s Studio”, a cornerstone of the museum’s collection.
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Worcester Art Museum Presents Photo Revolution: Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman
A bold, multi-media exhibition, Photo Revolution traces iconic artists from the 1960s to the 1980s. On view through February 16, 2020.
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Long Disputed, a Painting In Massachusetts Is Now Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci
Long attributed to Lorenze di Credi, new research suggesting a small panel painting at the Worcester Art Museum is actually by one of the greatest masters of the Italian Renaissance.
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Can Art Museums Help Illuminate Early American Connections To Slavery?
Would you think differently about a work of art if you knew it depicted a slave owner? New labels installed at the Worcester Art Museum are drawing attention to the connections between art, slavery, and wealth in early America.
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A Cybernetic Bestiary Made of Disposable Packaging
At the Worcester Art Museum, Shih Chieh Huang has assembled bioluminescent kinetic sculptures made of dollar store materials.
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John O'Reilly's Radical Photomontages
John O'Reilly's work reflects and refracts the history of art, as well as the history of looking, scanning, and reading an image.
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Photography's Blue Period Gets Its First Major Show in the US
In 1842, British scientist Sir John Herschel experimented with the effect of light on iron compounds, inventing a process to produce the blue-tinted prints we know as cyanotypes.
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Beastie Boys Mom Donates Major Renaissance Painting to Massachusetts Museum
This month, the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts announced it has acquired Paolo Veronese’s "Venus Disarming Cupid" (circa 1560), which is believed to be one of the few works by the famed Renaissance master still in private hands.