While fashion (such as Madame X’s gown) has long been an instrument in the art historical toolkit, we don’t often consider coiffure. Block has trained herself to look differently at such ...

Once a key collecting category, with robust auction departments, hungry collectors, and record sales, historical American art was hit hard by the 2008 financial crisis. I’ve long wondered if the ...

were obscured by more established art historical narratives. Manila-based Silverlens and New York-based Tina Kim Gallery are together presenting three monumental paintings by the Filipino-American ...

That movement represents an art historical milestone: the first art movement to originate solely from the United States. Unsurprisingly, Abstract Expressionism, like most canonical art historical ...

Courtesy of Greenwich Historical Society And so the Cos Cob Bridge, as it's commonly known, eventually became part of the art produced by local painters. One hundred and twenty years later ...

The programs' curricula incorporates historical, theoretical, and critical perspectives on art, design, and contemporary visual cultures. Fifteen full-time faculty teach modern and contemporary art ...

A pioneer in painting, Murray’s distinctively shaped canvases break with the art-historical tradition of illusionistic space in two-dimensions. Jutting out from the wall and sculptural in form, Murray ...

An exhibition opening in Edinburgh this month will shine a light on the work of female Scottish artists stretching back two and a half centuries – and, say its organisers, draw attention to work too ...

This includes amongst others the study of artworks, architecture, interiors and cities, materials and techniques, exchanges and ideas. Our art historical and historiographical research is complemented ...

Performing scripted narratives in rhyming verse, the artist—with her husband Patrick Kelley and various family members—explores historical periods through fictitious characters such as nurses, ...

Plus: Guggenheim Fellowship wins, and the first woman to direct a Pixar short is a Canadian art-school alum.

Stewart Gardner was passionate about traveling and art. Upon receiving her father’s fortune in 1891, Stewart Gardner began collecting the works now in her museum. There is little rhyme or reason ...