A new collaboration between between ecologists and art historians explored whether it’s possible to get accurate information about landscape ecology from nineteenth century paintings. They studied the ...
Bridget R. Cooks first made a splash by casting a critical eye on museums. In her much-discussed 2011 book, Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum, Cooks looked at the ...
Ahn Hwijun (86), a leading Korean art historian and emeritus professor at Seoul National University’s Department of Archaeology and Art History who laid the foundation for research on Korean painting ...
Using the name @_theiconoclass, McGillivray has amassed nearly 400k followers on TikTok who tune in for her pithy, irreverent content about art. One of her most popular videos provides tongue-in-cheek ...
Editor’s note: This story was written by Roberta K. Tarbell, Professor Emerita of Art History at Rutgers University-Camden; Visiting Scholar, Center for American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art; and ...
Editor’s Note: Untold Art History investigates lesser-known stories in art, spotlighting unsung and pioneering artists you should know, as well as revealing new insights into influential artworks.
Anthropeum is a daily game that uses the Met’s open-access data to showcase underrepresented art and artifacts ...
Steven Nelson, professor of art history at UCLA, and Director of the African Studies Center, recently tweeted that he is a member of a rare and exceptional group: one of six full professors in art ...
A review of Art: A New History, by Paul Johnson. The modern sensibility recoils against the “great man” model of history: history as the account of decisive events, shaped by the autonomous actions of ...
In January 2014, then-president Barack Obama was giving a speech to employees at a manufacturing plant in Wisconsin when he said that “folks can make a lot more potentially with skilled manufacturing ...
A Lady Writing (a cover letter) by Johannes Vermeer (1665) (edit Shari Flores/Hyperallergic, courtesy Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) Obtaining a computer science degree once seemed like ...