Em is for Museums.

Only one week left to see Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern. See it before July 23 and be sure to share your matchy-matchy moments with us using #mybkm—you may end up on our feed!

For more than a decade, evidence has been piling up that humans colonized the Americas thousands of years before the Clovis people. The Clovis, who are the early ancestors of today’s Native Americans, left abundant evidence of their lives behind in the form of tools and graves. But the mysterious pre-Clovis humans, who likely arrived 17,000 to 15,000 years ago, have left only a few dozen sources of evidence for their existence across the Americas, mostly at campsites where they processed animals during hunting trips. Now a fresh examination of one such campsite, a 14,000-year-old hunter’s rest stop outside the city of Tres Arroyos in Argentina, has given us a new understanding of how the pre-Clovis people might have lived.

Gems, stones and amulets typical of curiosity cabinets- agates, jaspers and jades valued for rarity and curative properties. c.1630.

Part of Cassiano dal Pozzo‘s “paper museum,” called “one of the most significant attempts before the age of photography to embrace human knowledge in visual form.”

City Museum: A 10-Story Former Shoe Factory Transformed into a Massive Urban Playground

The 600,000 square-foot urban playground, City Museum, in St. Louis is probably the largest park of its kind anywhere. A former 10-story international shoe factory was constructed by artist and sculptor Bob Cassilly. 

Art Abroad

It’s a wonderful time to be an art student right now. Or an art appreciator, or just a regular person because the world of art is alive and abundant right now, brimming with bravery and brilliance. With some of the most retrospective exhibitions across the globe gracing the walls (and sometimes the floors, ceilings and windows) from Australia to America, there’s never been a better time to embrace art wherever you are, whatever you’re into. Here’s Lucca’s museum guide to getting inspired. 

Artist Dan Flavin conflated the visual language of art and religion with his ethereal “diagonals” series, works made from fluorescent tubes that range in scale from single lamps to larger site-specific installations. Don’t miss your opportunity to view one of his earliest “diagonals,” entitled “the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Robert Rosenblum)” (1963) on view now in Embracing the Contemporary.