Explore perspectives on Sultan Muhammad's Court of Gayumars with author Michael Cothren. Discover the painting's significance in the Persian narrative tradition and its journey from the royal court.

Explore various perspectives on Pedro Figari and Afro-Uruguayan Culture with author Patrick Frank, who focuses on the artist's portrayal of Candombe ceremonies and the issue of cultural appropriation.

Join author Henry Sayre in our Looking Through the Canvas webisode series where he will discuss the politics underlying Édouard Manet’s The Battle of the “Kearsarge” and the “Alabama” painted in a matter of weeks after, on Sunday, June 19, the U.S.S. Kearsarge engaged the Confederate sloop Alabama in international waters just off Cherbourg, France in the English Channel and sank her in a battle that lasted some 70 minutes. Manet’s first painting to directly address current events, it encapsulates French attitudes toward the American Civil War. Its centrality to the painter’s own political leanings are perhaps best illustrated by the fact that eight years later, after France had been defeated by Germany and radical Paris had fallen to more conservative French forces, in what itself amounted to a Civil War, it would be Manet’s sole entry to the Salon of 1872.