🎉📸 Happy Birthday to the legendary Mario Giacomelli! Born on August 1, 1925, in the seaside town of Senigallia, Italy, Giacomelli turned the everyday into the extraordinary with just a camera and a bold vision. 🖤🤍 From grainy, high-contrast landscapes to poetic portraits of

August is #WomenInTranslationMonth! 📚🌍✨ This month, we’re celebrating the powerful voices of women authors from around the world—and the translators who bring their stories to new audiences. One gem not to miss: Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life by

🎨✨ August is American Artists Appreciation Month! This month, we’re honoring the bold, the visionary, and the boundary-breaking—and few embody that spirit more than Barbara T. Smith. From the 1960s onward, Smith has been a fearless force in California’s art scene, using

Please join us Thursday, August 7 at 7:30 a.m. EST in Virginia, 7:30 p.m. in Beijing for a talk with Elizabeth King, author of "Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and its Legend" with Paragon Book Gallery in Beijing! Elizabeth will be in conversation with Wang

🎨 Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Artist in the Age of Revolution By Laura Auricchio Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749–1803) was a brilliant portraitist and one of the few women admitted to the prestigious French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. Her patrons ranged from the royal

🌿 Botanical Revolutions: Book Talk with Giovanni Aloi 🌿 📅 August 12, 2025 🕕 6–7 p.m. EST | Online 📚 Free with registration What if plants weren’t just background in art—but the main characters? Join renowned art historian and plant specialist Giovanni Aloi for a

📸✨ August is American Artists Appreciation Month! This month, we’re shining a light on artists who used their creativity to change the world—like Lewis Hine, the photographer who turned his lens into a tool for justice. In "The Traveling Camera: Lewis Hine and the Fight to End

🖋️✨ Happy Calligraphy Day! Today we celebrate the timeless beauty of the written word—where every flourish, loop, and line becomes a work of art. And there’s no better way to honor it than with "Art of the Pen: Calligraphy from the Court of the Emperor Rudolf II". 📜👑🌸 This

#BOOK: 'Anna Atkins: Photographer, Naturalist, Innovator', the woman who captured #nature in blue and the birth of photographic #art, written by Corey Keller and published by Getty Publications. Read more: tinyurl.com/5dv6t4as Buy the book: tidd.ly/45yInhJ #adv

📸✨ Happy Birthday to the legendary Herb Ritts! Born August 13, 1952, Ritts redefined glamour, light, and form—turning the California sun into his signature filter. ☀️🖤 From iconic celebrity portraits to bold fashion editorials and sculptural nudes, Ritts’s work blurred the

🎨✨ New Episode Alert! ✨🎨 This week on Vulgar History, host Ann Foster dives into the dazzling, dramatic life of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun with special guest Dr. Jordana Pomeroy, author of "Daring: The Life and Art of Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun." Supremely talented and

Hear ye hear ye! It is the annual Getty Publications sale! Through September 14th, there is a 50% off sale through Getty Retail on select Getty Publications. Learn about the art of anatomy, the writings of Albert Renger-Patzsch, video art in Latin America, ancient funerary

📐✨ Free Fridays with Getty Publications ✨📐 Unlock the beauty of Islamic architectural design—for free—with this week’s featured title from the Getty Virtual Library! 📖 "The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture" By Gülru Necipoğlu A rare and

🏛️✨ August is American Artists Appreciation Month! This month, we’re celebrating the bold visionaries who shaped American culture—and few did it with more flair and feeling than Franklin D. Israel. 💡📐🌴 Known for his sculptural, emotionally charged architecture, Israel

🎨🎉 Happy Birthday to Gustave Caillebotte! Born August 19, 1848, Caillebotte was more than just an Impressionist—he was a master observer of modern masculinity, capturing the men of 19th-century Paris with striking intimacy and originality. 🧑‍🎨🕰️🌧️ 📘 "Gustave Caillebotte:

📸🌎 Happy World Photo Day! Today we celebrate the power of photography to document, inspire, and transform—and few projects capture that spirit like Ed Ruscha’s Streets of Los Angeles: Artist, Image, Archive, City. 🛣️📷🌇 In 1966, Ed Ruscha mounted a motorized camera to his car

🌋📚 On This Day in 79 CE Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and volcanic debris—preserving a moment in time that continues to captivate the world nearly 2,000 years later. Among the most extraordinary discoveries? The Villa dei

🔬🎨 August is American Artists Appreciation Month! This month, we’re celebrating the creative minds who blur boundaries—and "Crossing Over: Art and Science at Caltech, 1920–2020" is a brilliant tribute to just that. 🌟📚 At Caltech, science isn’t just equations and

🪨📚 New Release! We’re thrilled to celebrate the publication of "Conservation of Granite in Cultural Heritage"—a groundbreaking resource for anyone working to preserve the enduring beauty and integrity of granite in built heritage. 🏛️🔬 For centuries, granite has been a

🖤✊🏽 Commemorating the March on Washington On August 28, 1963, over 250,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., to demand civil and economic rights for Black Americans. While the images of that day—Dr. King at the Lincoln Memorial, crowds stretching down the Mall—are iconic, the