Bayt Farhi, a Sephardic palace in Ottoman Damascus, begun c. 1780 an ARCHES video Speakers: Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris, Smarthistory, and Steven Zucker.
John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, 1971, lithograph, 22-7/16 x 30-1/16 inches (The Museum of Modern Art), images © John Baldessari, courtesy of the artist Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, Thoughts of the Past, exhibited 1859, oil on canvas, 864 x 508 mm (Tate Britain, London). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Joseph Beuys, Table with Accumulator (Tisch mit Aggregat), 1958-85, Tate Modern, London. Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
José María Velasco, The Candelabrum, 1887, oil on canvas, 61 x 45 cm (Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City) A conversation between Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Smarthistory.
A conversation between Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Beth Harris in front of Juan Patricio Morlete Ruiz, Christ Consoled by Angels, 18th century, oil on copper, 84.5 x 64.5 cm (Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City). Created by Smarthistory.
Juana Basilia Sitmelelene, Coin (Presentation) Basket, Chumash, Mission San Buenaventura, c. 1815-22, Sumac, Juncus textilis, mud dye, 9 x 48 cm (National Museum of the American Indian). Speakers: Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/
Vasily Kandinsky, Improvisation 28 (second version), 1912, oil on canvas, 111.4 x 162.1 cm (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Hundreds of shoelaces form just three words. Here, the artist takes an abstract idea and makes it immediate. Nari Ward, We the People (black version), 2015, shoelaces, 8 × 27 feet (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art), a Seeing America video Speakers: Dr. Mindy Besaw, Curator of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Headdress, 20th century, feathers (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus and Psarocolius decumanus) and plant materials, approximately 1 m x 60 cm, Kayapó (Cayapo) people, Para, Brazil (The British Museum). Speakers: Dr. Jago Cooper (Curator, Head of the Americas, The British Museum) and Dr. Steven Zucker. Special thanks to Dr. Jago Cooper, Matthew Cock, Kate Jarvis and The British Museum.
Fernand Khnopff, I Lock My Door Upon Myself, 1891 (Neue Pinakothek, Munich) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris & Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street, Dresden, oil on canvas, 1908 (MoMA) Speakers: Dr. Juliana Kreinik, Dr. Steven Zucker, Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Paul Klee, Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine), 1922, 25 1/4 x 19" watercolor, ink, and gouache on paper (MoMA) Speakers: Dr. Juliana Kreinik and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Gustav Klimt, Death and Life, 1910, reworked 1915, oil on canvas, 178 x 198 cm (Leopold Museum, Vienna). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Kritios Boy, from the Acropolis, Athens, c. 480 B.C.E., 3' 10" high (Acropolis Museum, Athens), Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Votive Adze "Kunz Axe," (Olmec Formative Period), c. 1200-500 B.C.E., jadeite, 31 x 16 x 11 cm (American Museum of Natural History) Speakers: Dr. Rex Koonz and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Statue of a woman, known as the "Lady of Auxerre," Eleutherna, Crete(?), Greece, c. 650-625 B.C.E., Daedalic style, limestone, 75 cm high (Musée du Louvre) Speakers: Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Lamassu (winged human-headed bulls possibly lamassu or shedu) from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (now Khorsabad, Iraq), Neo-Assyrian, c. 720-705 B.C.E., gypseous alabaster, 4.20 x 4.36 x 0.97 m, excavated by P.-E. Botta 1843-44 (Musée du Louvre) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker
Dr. Matthew A. Postal and Dr. Steven Zucker discuss landmarks preservation in New York City while visiting: Charles Luckman Associates's Madison Square Garden and Pennsylvania Station (below), the former site of Charles McKim for McKim Mead, & White, Pennsylvania Station (New York City), 1910 and then visiting Reed & Stem, Warren & Wetmore's Grand Central Terminal, 1912. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Penn Station's destruction, and the preservation of architectural heritage. Dr. Matthew A. Postal and Dr. Steven Zucker discuss landmarks preservation in New York City while visiting: Charles Luckman Associates's Madison Square Garden and Pennsylvania Station (below), the former site of Charles McKim for McKim Mead, & White, Pennsylvania Station (New York City), 1910 and then visiting Reed & Stem, Warren & Wetmore's Grand Central Terminal, 1912. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/