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Andy Warhol purchased a Polaroid Big Shot camera around 1970 and used it to capture the images that would be the starting point for much of his work until the end of his life. The photographs, like those of Italian artist Sandro Chia seen in the…

“He was the best. The best pitcher I ever saw, maybe the best pitcher anyone ever saw or will see.” –wi

There are only so many angles that a photographer can capture from the press box. Iooss created this non-sequential series of images to represent what he calls Koufax’s “perfect motion.” The central image is also featured in this exhibition.

The Egyptian ruler Sety I was buried with over 1000 shabtis of different materials, many of which are found in Egypt and museums around the world. When the king’s tomb (KV 17) was discovered by Giovanni Belzoni in 1817, he found shabtis strewn across…

The daughter of Janaka, king of Videha, born from a furrow in the earth. Steadfast in her devotion to her husband, Rama, she refuses to abandon him in his exile, and joins him in the forest. She is sometimes understood to be an incarnation of…

The screen print of Sitting Bull was based on a well-known 1881 photograph of the Hunkapapa Lakota Sioux chief taken by Orlando Scott Goff in Bismarck, North Dakota. In 1876, Sitting Bull led a united confederation of Lakota tribes to defeat General…