To explore interests outside of work, I took an affordable online art history course through Coursera and MoMA, one of the ...

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 ...

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 question of why, at the turn of the 20th century, modern art flourished in Europe has long been one of art history’s most intriguing. Was it exposure to non-Western influences? The advent of the ...

Like history in general, art history is subject to recurrent revisions and reappraisals. Whether it occurs within their lifetimes or posthumously, some artists earn a place in the art-historical ...

Thirty years ago, if you saw someone spray-painting a wall, you'd probably call the cops. Today, that same person might be selling their work for millions at Sotheby's. Street art has undergone one of ...

NEW YORK — It was a defining moment for the depressed art market when a lush portrait of a woman by Gustav Klimt became the second-most expensive painting ever sold at auction and set a record for the ...

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 ...

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Preliminary Encounters -- 1. Contemporary `Southeast Asian' Art: Regional Interventions -- Why `Southeast Asian' Contemporary Art? -- The Shifting Art-Historical ...