Watching the celebrations for the inauguration of the New York City mayor, my mind suddenly turned back to my intellectual career early in this century. I remembered some writings I had almost ...

When I was a young, I read and re-read Marion N. French’s Myths and Legends of the Ages. First published in 1956, this book was a Baby Boom generation best seller. Even today, it sits on my office ...

Few contemporary artists challenge the narratives of Western art history as provocatively and playfully as Kent Monkman. The artist has spent decades confronting the colonial gaze from inside of some ...

English translation of: British black art : l'histoire de l'art occidental en débat. British Black Art, l'histoire de l'art occidental en débat propose l'étude d'une série d'œuvres associées à la ...

This painting is among works in in the “Painted for Illustration: Paintings and Published Western Art from the Collection of Naoma Tate” exhibition now on display at the University of Wyoming’s ...

Western art history is littered with fruit, from medieval forbidden fruit to 17th-century Dutch Calvinist lemons to Gauguin's compliant squeezes to Cezanne's chiseled and abraded veterans. Gary Faigin ...

Anyone expecting the Baltimore Museum of Art’s groundbreaking survey of European women artists from 1400-1800 to simply ascend a group of overlooked female painters to a heightened status equal that ...

Being part of the art world means that many of our jokes fall flat or are incomprehensible to outsiders. That's alright, this poster of traditional Western art history makes the art geeks among us ...