For the Culturally Curious. #GoogleartsCulture
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🧵 Celebrating the iconic South African artist Dr. Esther Mahlangu on her 91st birthday ✨Together with six cultural institutions, @googlearts is honoring her legacy with 'The Pioneering Spirit of Esther Mahlangu', her first online retrospective 🎨 🔗
Step into her vibrant world through 700+ personal archival images and 100+ high-res artworks. Explore 360-degree views of her homestead, or tour the Iziko South African National Gallery retrospective on Street View 🏛️ 🔗 goo.gle/4BNZA5T
"Through my art, I have seen the world. In turn, the world learned about my Ndebele heritage." — Dr. Esther Mahlangu
History is a living narrative preserving culture for generations to come ✨Step into the full retrospective 🔗 goo.gle/esther-mahlangu
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🧵 Discover 40 years of American culinary history with the James Beard Foundation and Google Arts & Culture: 'Bite by Bite'. 10,000+ digitized menus are now online, showing how dining trends, values, and ingredients evolved ✨🍽️ 🔗 goo.gle/4AswJTr
Beyond the menus, dive into curated stories celebrating the people and heritage behind the plate. Explore the legacy of "the father of American gastronomy," James Beard, and the history of the foundation’s NYC headquarters 🏛️ 🔗 goo.gle/4kdgjJL
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Food connects diverse communities. History is a living narrative shared through every plate. Immerse yourself in American culinary history with the James Beard Foundation on Google Arts & Culture ✨ 🔗 goo.gle/Bite-by-Bite
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From the 1930s to the 1970s, illustrator Alceu Penna chronicled Rio de Janeiro's emerging street style. His weekly illustrations recorded how Brazilian fashion transformed across five decades. 👗
Explore his archive: goo.gle/4ByBSdJ
Between Nov 9 and Nov 18, 1989, East Germany issued over 10 million travel visas.
Why the sudden rush? An accidental announcement on live TV brought down the Berlin Wall, sending thousands to the borders with no turning back.
Read the story 🧱 goo.gle/4z7WHdM
🧵 What do you see when you really look at art? Together with @Courtauld, we’re launching ‘The Art of Looking’ to open up art and art history to everyone. Read more here 🔗 goo.gle/4sCU1TI
We're also announcing a new joint experimental AI residency. The project explores how AI can unlock the Courtauld's extensive photographic archives, making these images searchable and connecting them to learning curricula worldwide. 🏛️
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Art history is a living narrative waiting to be explored. Take a closer look at the collection and find your part of the story today:
🔗goo.gle/courtauld ✨
Let’s go color hunting for the hues within the collection of @SHOHAKU_Museum in Nara, Japan. 🎨
You’ll find azure, ultramarine, indigo, and teal - thanks to the use of natural mineral pigments such as lapis lazuli.
Tap the link to find artworks that match your chosen color palette on Google Arts & Culture: goo.gle/4zKTx0m
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Here’s a 19th-century autumn treat 🍂
Young girl carrying a pumpkin
🎨 Fausto Zonaro
📅 1889
🏛️ Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul
#FaustoZonaro #Girlwithpumpkin #Ottoman #ArtHistory #GoogleArtsAndCulture
Young Girl Carrying a Pumpkin is a masterpiece by Fausto Zonaro, an Italian artist who became the official court painter for the Ottoman Empire. See how he blended Western academic realistic painting techniques, with the local color, and light of the East.
