Explore Yvonne Jacquette's creative process that led to her Autumn Expansion painting

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Alicja Zelazko wants you to enjoy art, not struggle with it.

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Completed in 1931, the “melting clocks” in Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory quickly became a worldwide sensation.

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Works of Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Shear are shown as Shear walks to Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, Old Chatham, New York, with Jerry Grant of the Shaker Museum, from the documentary Kindred Aesthetics: Mt. Lebanon Shaker Village, Ellsworth Kelly & Jack Shear (2011).

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An overview of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; from the documentary A World of Art: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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While many native species are lost when a natural landscape changes into an urban one, some species survive and thrive. Several plants, animals, and other organisms adapt to the challenges of urban living by changing their behaviour, as well as by slightly changing their genetic makeup.

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Overview of New York City.

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Excerpt from the documentary Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line (2012), in which architect Ricardo Scofidio discusses the inspiration and development of the design for the High Line in New York City.