He collects art deco objects as well as modern paintings, secretly yearns to go to Hollywood. Born in 1935 in Antwerp to a family of diamond merchants, he came to the U.S. on the eve of World War II.

A Window into Modern Japan: Using Sugoroku Games to Promote the Ideal Japanese Subject in the Early 20th Century. Sugoroku, Japanese board games, have been popular since the 19th century, if not ...

A new four-part Netflix docuseries, “African Queens: Njinga,” tells the story of the 17th-century warrior Queen Njinga, who ruled over the territories of Ndongo and Matamba in present-day ...

The Wichita Art Museum is pulling out some rarely seen works by well-known early modern artists, such as Edward Hopper and Alfred Dove, from its collection for its next featured exhibition.

Organized within the framework of the Global Early Modern Studies (GEMS) program at the CUNY Graduate Center, this lightning panel invites short presentations (5–7 minutes) exploring how digital tools ...

Kristen Poole’s intellectual interests range widely across the early modern period (the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries). She is particularly interested in the history of religion/theology, the ...