Stories and cultural expressions across many fields.
The life, California paintings, photo collages, landscapes and digital experiments of David Hockney, a British artist devoted to renewing the act of seeing.
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The transnational life, historical research, major novels and legacy of Marguerite Yourcenar, the first woman elected to the French Academy.
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The life, social history, Andean research and critical legacy of Alberto Flores Galindo, author of In Search of an Inca and a major Peruvian public intellectual.
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A critical history of the nude from antiquity and academic study to modernism, photography, performance and debates about gender, consent and representation.
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A critical view of the labour, rivalries, patronage, family pressures and unfinished commissions behind the extraordinary art of Michelangelo.
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The workshop training, paintings, notebooks, anatomical studies and legacy of Leonardo da Vinci, whose drawing united artistic imagination with sustained investigation.
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Francisco Goya moved from tapestry designs and court portraits to radical prints and haunting late paintings that exposed superstition, war and human fragility.
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David Levine made editorial caricature an exacting form of criticism, using economical lines and incisive distortions to question political and cultural authority.
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Paul Klee united music, natural processes, humour and formal analysis in paintings and drawings that continue to shape modern art and creative education.
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