Art History Art Bites: The Mystery Object in a Famous Dürer Print What might the truncated polyhedron represent? By Brian Boucher, Feb 12, 2024
Art History Airplane Mode: 7 Artists Who Were Nerds for Aviation Let's get high. By Min Chen, Feb 9, 2024
Art History Here Are 3 Things You Might Not Know About Richard Avedon’s Iconic Fashion Photograph ‘Dovima With Elephants’ "Iconic Avedon: A Centennial Celebration of Richard Avedon" is currently on view at Gagosian, Paris. By Annikka Olsen, Jan 24, 2024
Art History ‘Mob Wife’ Style Is All the Rage—These Glitzy, Glamorous Women From Art History Defined the Look Artists from Artemisia Gentileschi to John Singer Sargent have captured the high drama, excessive opulence of the mob wife aesthetic. By Katie White, Jan 19, 2024
Art History 3 Things You Should Know About ‘Island of the Dead,’ a Once Wildly Famous Now Obscure Painting Full of Mystery Created by Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin, the haunting work still has some secrets. By Annikka Olsen, Dec 28, 2023
Art History Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks’ Captures the Isolation of American Modernity. Here Are 3 Things You Might Not Know About It A Hemingway short story may have inspired Hopper's iconic scene. By Bobby McGee, Dec 28, 2023
Art History Art We Love: An Exuberant Altar to New York’s Art World On Florine Stettheimer’s 'Cathedrals of Art' (1942). By Caroline Goldstein, Dec 25, 2023
Art History Art We Love: An Impressionist Snapshot of Summer’s Simple Pleasures On Albert Edelfelt's 'Boys Playing on the Shore' (1884). By Annikka Olsen, Dec 25, 2023
Art History Art We Love: The Everlasting Enigma of Manet’s Balcony Scene On Édouard Manet’s 'The Balcony' (1868-69) By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 24, 2023
Art History Art We Love: The Playful Profundity of These Transforming Paintings On Tatsuo Miyajima's 'Painting of Change' (2020). By Vivienne Chow, Dec 24, 2023
Art History Art We Love: The Prickly Pleasures of an 18th-Century Caricature On Philip Dawe's 'The Macaroni, a Real Character at the Late Masquerade' (1773). By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dec 24, 2023
Art History There It Is! Here Are 2023’s Most Surprising Art-Historical Discoveries Catch up on a year's worth of rediscovered art, from the Artemisia Gentileschi that languished in storage to the N.C. Wyeth found in a thrift store. By Adam Schrader, Dec 24, 2023
Art History Art We Love: A Truly Luminous Pre-Raphaelite Christ On William Holman Hunt's 'The Light of the World' (1853). By Verity Babbs, Dec 23, 2023
Art History Art We Love: The Jubilant Catharsis of Pipilotti Rist’s Rampage On Pipilotti Rist’s 'Ever Is Over All' (1997). By Kate Brown, Dec 23, 2023
Art History Art We Love: A Scowling Zen Sage’s Unexpected Wisdom On Kano Masanobu's 'Bodhidharma in Red Robes' (late 15th century). By Ben Davis, Dec 23, 2023