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From 1921 until 1948, Paul J. Sachs (1878 1965) offered a yearlong program in art museum training, Museum Work and Museum Problems, through Harvard University's Fine Arts Department. Known simply as the Museum Course, the program was responsible for shaping a professional field museum curatorship (...)

A unique approach to the history of art told through the story of colour and pigments.Did you know that the ultramarine that shimmers at the centre of Vermeer's Milkmaid connects that masterpiece with 6th-century Zoroastrian paintings found on the walls of cave temples in Bamiyan, Afghanistan? Or (...)