The 20th-century art historian Kenneth Clark made a distinction between the “naked,” meaning unclothed and ashamed, and the ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

It’s a celebration as well as a reckoning: After seven years, the Studio Museum in Harlem reopened this fall in a new building that showcases its history of highlighting Black artists. It’s a history ...

What if the oldest human artwork were nothing more than the shadow of a hand pressed against rock? In a remote cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, researchers have identified a stenciled hand ...

Generally overlooked in Art History 101 was the inverse: how European materials and images were repurposed by Indigenous artists. That 1941 MoMA show was full of ancient Native objects, along with ...

Qatar is set to make history next month as it becomes the first Middle Eastern nation to host Art Basel, the world’s most prestigious contemporary art fair. The inaugural Art Basel Qatar, from ...

New research suggests that Europe may not be where human symbolic culture first began. Scientists have discovered an ancient hand stencil in Indonesia that is nearly 68,000 years old. This finding ...

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 ...

The standard story of 1960s arts is one of Abstract Expressionism leading into Pop Art and minimalism. A Whitney show proposes an altogether different one centered on surrealism. Shawn Walker’s Man ...

How does technical art history relate to the burgeoning field of heritage science? Has technical art history become part of heritage science? Can both disciplines be considered counterparts within the ...

Visitors to the fair will find a city overflowing with history and art, including contemporary graffiti and posthumous museum retrospectives. By Farah Nayeri If visitors to Art Basel Miami Beach, ...

Weiss, formerly the dean of JHU's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences who returned to Hopkins in 2023 following eight years as president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, will ...