Tucked behind the grand staircase of London’s former Old War Office, a piece of intriguing art sits. It consists of 55 separate portraits of a diverse collection of women. Interspersed between each ...

A month or so before the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego opened its doors on Feb. 28, 1926, inaugural director Reginald Poland arrived in town with a trove of precious international artworks to fill ...

From the first spread of Art Spiegelman’s graphic memoir “Maus,” one can already glean his signature mix of the autobiographical, the fictional and the poetic. “It was summer, I remember I was ten or ...

In Lowell, the dining hall is decorated with a crystal chandelier and Ionic columns. In Winthrop’s dining hall, the walls are adorned with framed portraits of the eponymous Winthrop family. In Dunster ...

Tavern At The End of History Morris Collins Dzanc Books, 326pp, $27.95 In Morris Collins’ novel about two directionless adults on the hunt for a famous work of art presumed to have been stolen during ...

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 ...

A new book that showcases an under-explored aspect to the history of photography is the first of its kind. “In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous America” is a partnership ...

Near the beginning of “Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper” at the Blanton Museum of Art, a 1968 photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson portrays Albers with her husband, Josef, whose “Homage to the ...

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...