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Special Effects in Japanese Prints

How Japanese printmakers created texture, sparkle, and shine.

By Allison Brewer, Josephine Jenks, and Cyntia Karnes, paper conservators

Article Works on paper Making Conservation
Irving Penn + Issey Miyake: Design Meets Photography

An interview on the photographer and designer’s collaboration over 13 years and 250+ garments.

By Cawaii Factory, in conversation with Midori Kitamura, chairperson of the Miyake Design Studio and the Miyake Issey Foundation

Article Works on paper Fashion Photography
How-To with the Conservators: Making a Woodcut Print

Learn how traditional woodcuts were made and create your own.

By Josephine Jenks, paper conservation graduate intern

Article Works on paper Making Conservation
Art in Short: Lavinia Fontana, Renaissance Woman

Meet one of the greatest women artists of the Italian Renaissance.

By Magnolia Molcan, senior web managing editor

Article European paintings Acquisitions Women in art
5 Works to Know from the Osher Collection of American Art

Get to know paintings by American artists from Georgia O’Keeffe to William Merritt Chase.

By Magnolia Molcan, senior web managing editor

Article American art Highlights
Strangers’ Poems: Louise Nevelson

Read (and hear) poems inspired by Nevelson's Sky Cathedral's Presence I.

By Ben Bernthal, poet

Article American art Poetry
Strangers’ Poems: Ibis Coffin

Read (and hear) a poem inspired by our Ibis coffin.

By Ben Bernthal, poet

Article Ancient art Poetry
Irving Penn’s New Guinea Man with Painted-On Glasses

What does this warrior’s body decoration indicate?

Audio Photography Works on paper
Sonic Blossom Playlist

Listen to a Schubert playlist featuring singers from Lee Mingwei’s Sonic Blossom.

Audio Contemporary art
5 Japanese Prints to Know

See how woodblock prints have evolved from the Edo period to today.

By Magnolia Molcan, senior web managing editor

Article Works on paper
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco without Men

Listen to a playlist featuring artworks by women at the de Young and Legion of Honor.

Audio Women in art
Appropriation, Appreciation + Commodification

What cultural appropriation is, and what we can do about it.

By Abram Jackson, director of interpretation

Article Costume + textile arts Fashion Power

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