DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — It might be hard to imagine that only a few decades ago the conventional history of modern art was overwhelmingly Eurocentric, but when I was in college in the 1990s the ...

With the inaugural Art Basel opening in Qatar, and with Frieze in Abu Dhabi later this year, the Kingdom is looking to the ...

The Japanese-born art historian Reiko Tomii is one of those researchers who is both passionate about her subjects and recognized among her peers for her meticulous mapping of the cultural-intellectual ...

The Museum of Modern Art in New York presents “Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream,” the most extensive retrospective ...

The standard story of 1960s arts is one of Abstract Expressionism leading into Pop Art and minimalism. A Whitney show proposes an altogether different one centered on surrealism. Shawn Walker’s Man ...

MoMa's exhibition "Lillie P. Bliss and the Birth of the Modern" is based on the art collection of the museum's enigmatic cofounder. Her efforts and collection have forged the ongoing narrative of ...

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 ...

Dr. Alejandro Anreus, a Cuban-born art historian and curator, gave his lecture to the UConn community at Homer Babbidge Library. His talk stemmed from his most recent book, “Modern Art in 1940s ...

Generally overlooked in Art History 101 was the inverse: how European materials and images were repurposed by Indigenous ...

Some trained abroad and returned with fresh perspectives; others rooted their work firmly in local life while pushing ...

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 ...