Exhibits
Few American writers have achieved the cultural impact of Herman Melville, author of the eternal classic Moby–Dick. Yet he died unrecognized for his genius by his contemporaries.
The Getty Villa is modeled on the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum.
In 1867, Mark Twain departed New York Harbor on the steamship Quaker City for a five-and-a-half-month excursion, with stops in Europe and around the Mediterranean.
2019 marks the bicentenary of the birth of the great nineteenth-century artist and critic John Ruskin.
Among the greatest examples of horror and sci-fi movie art ever made
The California gold rush was the first broadly significant event in American history to be documented in any substantial depth by photography.
Annette Campbell-White served as the founder and senior managing partner of MedVenture Associates, a biomedical venture capital firm from 1986 until 2015, and is a founding member of the Wikipedia
“Make Believe” presents an enchanted realm where sleeping figures float, women weave spiderwebs, magicians cause children to disappear, and homemade dirigibles fly over icebergs.
Luminous and often haunting, Kay Nielsen’s interpretations of classic fairy tales are among the most celebrated book illustrations of the 20th century.
