Looking at art takes time. In any given lesson or unit plan, you may only have a limited time to look at and discuss a work of art and then proceed with further discussion or activities. …

1939 Invited by Dorothy Liebes, Director, Decorative Arts Section, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, to represent American ceramic art at the Exposition.

Discuss a fictional account of a gladiatorial criticizes the type of justice presented in Skills and Reading, Focus: Discussion, Critical Analysis, Subject English Area: Language Arts

Most of these drawings were part of his designs for an entire cultural complex in Fort Wayne, especially for his only realized building there, the theater now known as the Performing Arts …

The lesson should contrast the locations in which nudity is socially acceptable in the everyday world with how it is presented in fictional works (i.e., visual arts, literature, drama).

We are hugely grateful to Leslie Carlson, Director of Art Preparation and Logistics, and her team, as well as others who installed the works and gallery didactics: Nicholas Barron and Thomas …

n influenced by Japanese screens. Have students examine screens in the Art Institute’s European Decorative Arts galleries and compare them to Japanese screens. How are they similar and …

In 1916, Magritte moved to Brussels to begin his formal stud-ies at the Académie des Beaux-Arts (the National Academy of Fine Arts). While at the academy he studied anatomy and perspective.

arts center modeled after the highly successful Harlem Community Art Center in New York and dedicated in 1941; continues to this day to provide professional training and op-portunities for …

This six-panel work, a gift from the artist, merges symbols of American history, the Chicago skyline, and the arts: music, painting, literature, architecture, theater, and dance.