The mysterious line between pre human and post human
40000 BCE-10000 BCE
Beautifying the functional and moving big rocks
12000 BCE-2000 BCE
A new metal catapults humanity out of the stone age
3200 BCE-600 BCE
When you have iron you have power
1200 BCE-800 CE
The oldest civilization in the Americas
3500 BCE-1800 BCE
No pyramids, but great plumbing
3300 BCE-1300 BCE
Super power of all super powers.
4000 BCE-30 BCE
Poetry, war, and the invention of law
3500 BCE-1000 BCE
The lost faces of the ancient world
3000 BCE-1200 BCE
Three dynasties birth Chinese art and philosophy.
2070 BCE-256 BCE
Know Thyself
800 BCE-31 BCE
A mysteriously happy people at the fringes of the classical world
768 BCE-100 BCE
The roads make the empire
753 BCE-530 CE
Death & Gold
800 BCE-43 CE
The largest economy in the world for 1500 years
230 BCE-550 CE
Human-animal hybrids in the melting pot of ancient cultures
600 BCE-500 CE
A Nubian Empire rivals Egypt for 1000 years
2000 BCE-400 CE
History's greatest navigators, and the beautiful vessels they left behind
1500 BCE-600 CE
The pouting ancestors of Mesoamerica
1400 BCE-400 BCE
City of Water & Fire
400 BCE-600 CE
The proliferation of Christian art
330 CE-1453
Religion, feudalism and lots of gold leaf.
476 CE-1492
Persia brings a wealth of art, poetry, and mysticism to Islam.
651 CE-1500
When you don't paint people, things get beautifully, powerfully decorative.
661 CE-1243
Wolves among sheep
793 CE-1066
The God-kings and stone cities of Cambodia
800 CE-1431
The race for height
1144-1500
Finding the sublime in nature's power
960 CE-1127
The original American Empire
1200-1572
Blood and conquest
1325-1521
Floating cities and stone heads facing the sea
800 CE-1525
The greatest cosmopolitan empire of the middle ages
618 CE-907 CE
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 imagery, democratic ideals, and the bloody hands of change.
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
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 explosion of black culture in America
1918-1936
Finding a way back home
1920-1960
For those who didn't like the Modern
1960-
Art as history, protest and education in the DRC
1975-2010
Open the rocks to discover the fruit inside
1960-
Culture, reflected and dissected
1955-2000
Mapping the Dreaming
1970-2020
