Distant Horizon Josef Kote

Lüsterweibchen combine the classic antler chandelier with fantastical figural forms. The form has risen and fallen (and then risen again) in popularity. -Ben Davidson & Pippa Biddle Now it calls a dining room in the Hudson Valley home. #AntiqueOfTheDay

#InsightOfTheDay | Rene Burri "A photograph is a moment - when you press the button, it will never come back."

#ArchitectStudio | Louis Sullivan "The building's identity resided in the ornament."

Celebrate freedom + Black excellence. Happy Juneteenth! Today, June 19 receive FREE admission at the MMoA. Image: Jonathan Green, “The Congregation”, 1990. Oil on canvas. Morris Museum of art, Augusta, Georgia. Purchased with funds from Julia J. Norrell + the 2005 Gala.

#InsightOfTheDay | Kimsooja "I saw art in life and life as art. I couldn’t separate one from another."

Thur. July 3 • 4 PM. 💃🏼 Create with Me! Dancing Dolls. View the exhibition of Green’s work, then create paper dolls. Members, FREE; nonmembers, $5. For kids, toddler to tween. Register online secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=tAzjwC or call 706-828-3867. 📸 Brent Cline.

The Statue of Liberty at dawn

Happy Independence Day! After voting for independence from the British Empire on July 2, the Continental Congress debated & edited Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence for 2 days, finally approving it and announcing the birth of our nation #OTD in 1776.

Happy #FourthOfJuly! The Museum is closed today for the holiday and will reopen tomorrow at 10 am 🎆 🎨: Possibly by: William G. Henis (American, active 1860–after 1886), "Goddess of Liberty weather vane" (1860–80), copper, gilding

From sea to shining sea. 🇺🇸 Happy Independence Day!   *We will be closed Friday, July 4 and will reopen Saturday, July 5.* Jonathan Green, “Evening Seascape,” 1999. Oil on linen. Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia. Gift of William and Martha Hilbert, Erie, PA.

David Hockney

Autumn on the Hills by Franklin Carmichael

Artrageous! Mural Madness. 🗓️ Sun Aug 10 ⏰ 2-4 pm 🆓 Downtown Augusta is quickly becoming a showcase for public murals, some made by the Morris’s own Teen Mural Campers. Construct a paper building + decorate it with your favorite downtown mural or dream up your own! FREE.

One of the stained glass Rose Windows of Notre Dame Cathedral.

Claude Monet painted this portrait of his wife just a few years before she died suddenly at the age of 32 💔 It captures a moment so perfect, he wanted to hold onto it forever.

Paddington enjoying his Marmalade Sarnie in York 🥪

A cozy family of owls in a stone clock tower in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

In the relatively undisturbed countryside outside Paris, Henri Biva depicts the river in the early morning, focusing on strong light effects and foliage detail (Morning at Villeneuve l’Etang: From Waters Edge, 1905)

TODAY • Sunday, September 21 • 2 PM Music at the Morris with legendary Wycliffe Gordon. 🆓 Wycliffe, who has performed with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Ricky Skaggs, will play jazz standards at the Morris. FREE.