Your Best Hour

Oath of the Horatii: *WONDER* 17.06.2026 2:45 ↓

Lessons learned from the Horatii brothers and sisters.

Oath of the Horatii: *THINK* 17.06.2026 7:38 ↓

This painting was like a lit dynamite stick to the French Revolution.

Lacemaker: *WONDER* 15.06.2026 1:50 ↓

There's no place like home.

Lacemaker: *THINK* 15.06.2026 5:10 ↓

During the Dutch Golden Age, 5-10 million artworks were produced for an audience who cared about home

Lacemaker: *LOOK* 15.06.2026 1:41 ↓

We are drawn into a space of one shows us the beauty of quiet focus.

Louis XIV: *WONDER* 11.06.2026 1:54 ↓

History teaches us that rigid rule and control of a ruler, while tidy, does not acknowledge the human right to choose.

Louis XIV: *THINK* 11.06.2026 5:17 ↓

All roads lead to the Versailles and the rule of Louis XIV. 

Louis XIV: *LOOK* 11.06.2026 2:38 ↓

A luxe oil painting worthy of the king.

Lamassu: *WONDER* 11.06.2026 1:50 ↓

The Lamassu are our guides through the transition spaces of this thresholds--what other types of thresholds do we pass through that hold meaning for us?

Lamassu: *THINK* 11.06.2026 1:58 ↓

These animals flanked doorways of special spaces in the Assyrian Empire.

Lamassu: *LOOK* 11.06.2026 2:00 ↓

This groovy combo creature gives us so much to look at.

Seated Scribe: *WONDER* 10.06.2026 2:26 ↓

This scribe asks us: would we want our role in life continue on for the eternities?

Seated Scribe: *THINK* 10.06.2026 5:20 ↓

This sculpture teaches us about the role of preservation in Egyptian culture.

Seated Scribe: *LOOK* 10.06.2026 2:04 ↓

We see the phenomenal preservation of this Ancient Egyptian scribe--don't forget to look at his eyes!

Venus de Milo: *WONDER* 08.06.2026 5:34 ↓

This sculpture brings up the bigger question: When is a sculpture nude and when is it just naked?

Venus de Milo: *THINK* 08.06.2026 2:16 ↓

Through the centuries, the Greeks iterated on how to create the most idealized figure.

Venus de Milo: *LOOK* 08.06.2026 1:26 ↓

We are looking at the Greek's mastery of the human form.

Nike of Samothrace: *WONDER* 04.06.2026 1:55 ↓

Nike invites us to receive our deepest desire, to experience freedom.

Nike of Samothrace: *THINK* 04.06.2026 3:40 ↓

Nike, a protector of dreams and hopes of ancient sailors.

Nike of Samothrace: *LOOK* 04.06.2026 3:41 ↓

The Nike of Samothrace dazzles us with her groundedness and lift.

Mona Lisa: *WONDER* 03.06.2026 1:47 ↓

Beyond the gobsmacking experience of witnessing this painting with people from every corner of the globe, might we take Leonardo's lifelong quest for truth to heart, and use both laws of the universe and observations from feathers and flowers to teach us about our world.

Mona Lisa: *THINK* 03.06.2026 6:33 ↓

Leonardo was the quintessential Renaissance man, through his quest for truth by combining his quest to understand large, metaphysical truths with his keen observation of the natural world. 

*WONDER* 01.06.2026 2:58 ↓

Step 3 is WONDER, tapping our curiosity and imagination to let this thing teach us how to be human and connect us to the people of the past.