The mysterious line between pre human and post human
40000 – 10000BCE
Beautifying the functional and moving big rocks
12000 – 2000BCE
A new metal catapults humanity out of the stone age
3200 – 600BCE
When you have iron you have power
1200BCE – 800CE
The oldest civilization in the Americas
3500 – 1800BCE
No pyramids, but great plumbing
3300 – 1300BCE
Super power of all super powers.
4000 – 30BCE
Poetry, war, and the invention of law
3500 – 1000BCE
The lost faces of the ancient world
3000 – 1200BCE
Three dynasties birth Chinese art and philosophy.
2070 – 256BCE
Know Thyself
800 – 31BCE
A mysteriously happy people at the fringes of the classical world
768 – 100BCE
The roads make the empire
753BCE – 530CE
Death & Gold
800BCE – 43CE
The largest economy in the world for 1500 years
230BCE – 550CE
Human-animal hybrids in the melting pot of ancient cultures
600BCE – 500CE
A Nubian Empire rivals Egypt for 1000 years
2000BCE – 400CE
History's greatest navigators, and the beautiful vessels they left behind
1500BCE – 600CE
The pouting ancestors of Mesoamerica
1400 – 400BCE
City of Water & Fire
400BCE – 600CE
Sacred illusion and mythical beasts
1200 – 500BCE
The proliferation of Christian art
330 – 1453
Religion, feudalism and lots of gold leaf.
476 – 1492
Persia brings a wealth of art, poetry, and mysticism to Islam.
651 – 1500
When you don't paint people, things get beautifully, powerfully decorative.
661 – 1243
Wolves among sheep
793 – 1066
The God-kings and stone cities of Cambodia
800 – 1431
The race for height
1144 – 1500
Finding the sublime in nature's power
960 – 1127
The original American Empire
1200 – 1572
Blood and conquest
1325 – 1521
Floating cities and stone heads facing the sea
800 – 1525
The greatest cosmopolitan empire of the middle ages
618 – 907CE
Ghost cities and geometric pottery
750 – 1600
Whose got the tallest mound?
800 – 1540
Cultural rebirth though intellectual inquiry
1350 – 1500
How Humanism beats down Feudalism with the printing press
1420 – 1650
Religion and the laws of perspective.
1492 – 1600
Power, sophistication, luxury and might.
1500 – 1800
Tension, distortion and ice-cold style
1520 – 1600
Art, culture, and NO OUTSIDERS
1603 – 1868
Benevolent emperors and the height of literature and art
1644 – 1912
Dare to Know
1685 – 1815
The best truth is secret truth
1690 – 1947
The drama of deep color and shadow
1600 – 1725
Allegory, craft, and the unrelenting dictatorship of the Academy
1661 – 1900
Opulent, playful embrace of the ornate — 18th century swag.
1715 – 1774
Classical ideals, tourism, and bloody revolution
1760 – 1830
Orderly government and social stability
1368 – 1644
500 years of spirit objects and power plays
1390 – 1891
Sculpting divine history
1440 – 1897
Artistic revolt against the Age of Enlightenment
1800 – 1860
A small village in France, a gathering of artists.
1830 – 1870
Love-lorn teenagers drag art back to the future
1848 – 1900
An American fraternity of mountain worshipers
1825 – 1870
Nature's pencil: light!
1826 – 1860
Truth, accuracy, and the absence of personal bias
1850 – 1880
The end of feudalism begins with the search for knowledge
1868 – 1912
10,000 islands, 1800 cultures and languages
1800 – 1925
Light and movement as the crux of human perception
1860 – 1900
Beyond nature, toward emotional simplicity.
1886 – 1905
Tradition be damned.
1870 – 1900
Painting metaphor and symbol
1888 – 1900
The western fantasy
1805 – 1920
"To every age its art. To art its freedom."
1897 – 1905
Out with the old, in with the sexy
1890 – 1910
A mystic search for meaning and psychological truth.
1880 – 1910
"A pot of paint has been flung in the face of the public"
1900 – 1910
A more authentic, anxious, and grotesque reality
1905 – 1933
Blood, speed and violence.
1909 – 1944
"We only wanted to express what was in us..."
1910 – 1930
Taking refuge in the square.
1913 – 1924
Dada is anti-dada!
1916 – 1924
The art of the perfectly straight line
1917 – 1931
Art should only serve society.
1919 – 1935
Art without reason, aesthetics or morality
1924 – 1965
Geometry, ornamentation, and lots and lots of money
1920 – 1940
It's not a picture, it's an event
1940 – 1960
What you see is what you see
1950 – 2000
Colonialism vs Tradition
1925 – 1981
Realism as a weapon
1900 – 1950
An empty utopia
1920 – 1940
An explosion of black culture in America
1918 – 1936
Finding a way back home
1920 – 1960
For those who didn't like the Modern
Art as history, protest and education in the DRC
1975 – 2010
Open the rocks to discover the fruit inside
Culture, reflected and dissected
1955 – 2000
Mapping the Dreaming
1970 – 2020
