Art History

The Surprising Power of Piet Mondrian’s Lesser-Known Early Paintings

Nicholas Fox Weber Reflects on Mondrian’s Still Lifes and Black-and-White Work

 
By Nicholas Fox Weber  October 3, 2024
Art History

Painting Emotion: How Claude Monet Turned His Inner Life Into Art

By Jackie Wullschläger  September 25, 2024
Art History

Advertising as Art: How Literary Magazines Pioneered a New Kind of Graphic Design

By Allison Rudnick  April 3, 2024
Art History

Unruly Writing: On the Problem with the Fragmented Art History Book

By Dalya Benor  March 5, 2024
Art History

Between Risk and Control: How Mark Rothko Discovered His Signature Style

By Adam Greenhalgh  February 7, 2024
Art History

Permanent Newness: Surrealism at 100

By Mark Polizzotti  January 9, 2024
Art History

Muse as Medium: On the Women Pablo Picasso Remade in His Image

By Mara Naselli  November 29, 2023
Art History

Drip Painting Was Actually Invented by a Ukrainian Grandmother… Not Jackson Pollock

By Noah Charney  November 9, 2023
Art History

Visibility and Erasure: Julia Bryan-Wilson on the Artist Louise Nevelson

By Jon Raymond  July 7, 2023
Art History

On Victorian Paleoart and the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

By C.E. McGill  May 10, 2023
Art History

After a Year Spent Visiting the Sistine Chapel, I Saw Something Sublime

By Jeannie Marshall  April 6, 2023
Art History

How Kiki de Montparnasse Made Her Life Into a Work of Art

By Mark Braude  August 4, 2022
Art History

When Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat Took the 1980s NYC Art Scene by Storm

By Dieter Buchhart  March 7, 2022
Art History

On the Birth of the Art Instinct

By John-Paul Stonard  December 8, 2021
Art History

Meet Berthe Weill, the Groundbreaking Female Art Dealer Who Made a Name for Picasso

By Charles Dellheim  September 22, 2021
Art History

A Witness to America: On the 1964 Frank O’Hara and Mario Schifano Creative Collaboration

By Vanessa Willoughby  April 20, 2021
Art History

Why Byzantium? Studying the Art of the Middle Ages as a Queer Latinx

By Roland Betancourt  November 4, 2020
Art History

Was Abstract Art Actually Invented by a Mid-19th-Century Spiritualist?

By Jennifer Dasal  September 23, 2020
Art History

Viewing Blackness Through the Lives of the Medici

By Katy Simpson Smith  March 24, 2020
Art History

95 Theses on Lord Byron, Graffiti,
and Bathroom Stalls

By Jodie Noel Vinson  December 9, 2019
Art History

On the Humorous Surrealism
of Mimi Parent

By Penelope Rosemont  November 14, 2019
Art History

Inside the Artist Studio of Georges Braque

By John Richardson  November 13, 2019
Art History

Alan Moore on William Blake and the Supernatural Poetry of Place

By Alan Moore  November 4, 2019
Art History

In Pursuit of the Elusive Spanish Forger

By Lydia Pyne  October 28, 2019
Art History

On Discovering a Multimillion-Dollar Trove of Hitler’s Looted Art in a Munich Apartment

By Mary M. Lane  October 25, 2019
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