Venture deep into the hinterlands of modern art history, and you come across the artistic movement of the 1880s and 1890s known as Symbolism. An international, diffuse, idealist, and mystical reaction ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — It might be hard to imagine that only a few decades ago the conventional history of modern art was overwhelmingly Eurocentric, but when I was in college in the 1990s the ...

ARTH116 Introduction to Renaissance and Early Modern Art History (4) (Recommended before junior year) ARTH117 Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art History (4) (Recommended before junior year) ...

The Japanese-born art historian Reiko Tomii is one of those researchers who is both passionate about her subjects and recognized among her peers for her meticulous mapping of the cultural-intellectual ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

Hugh Eakin’s new book, “Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America” (Crown), isn’t really about Picasso, or about war, or about art. Its subject is the creation of a market for a certain product, ...

Few things capture the imagination of art history more than a talented couple. Lee Miller and Man Ray, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Sonia and Robert Delaunay—the pairs all conjure up images of lovers ...

Visual Literacy and Historical Thinking: In the 100-level classes, students will acquire an introductory background of historical data as well as a basic set of interpretive tools in order to ...

I am an art historian who has carried out extensive research on the evolution of the market for “recent art.” And I can tell you that something generational is now happening with NFTs. As a historian, ...

India’s modern art history is often reduced to a brief list of celebrated men. But alongside them, and frequently despite structural barriers, women painters were carving out bold, original visual ...