In “Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment,” an ambitious, fractious, and occasionally bewildering new exhibition at Harvard Art Museums, a pair of images highlights a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Roll over Voltaire and tell Kant and Hobbes the news. The Cleveland Museum of Art has trained focus on the Enlightenment period in Europe (1685–1815, aka “the age of reason ...

Sustained funding from the “Sun King,” Louis XIV, who invested in art and culture ... or political movement, there were proponents of the Enlightenment who wished to carry its principles ...

Okakura Kakuzo (1863-1913) was very much a product of the Meiji Era that he so revolted against. No slogans about progress and enlightenment for him. He thought that Japan was already enlightened ...

He also wasn’t a conservative in any traditional sense, for there was little that he, and others in the Futurist art movement ... rise of the “Dark Enlightenment” movement and its most ...

It emerged in France in the 1840s as a rejection of traditional forms of art and literature deemed obsolete in the wake of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. The movement emphasized ...

Sharjah Art Museum’s efforts to bring people closer to art, by providing platforms for artists to showcase their works and by engaging the community through educational initiatives, have cemented its ...