Art History

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Photographer Jeff Boudreau and stylist Lyson Marchessault respond to museum’s light, colour and pattern

Photographer Adrian Samson and set designer Sarah Parker collaborate to present objects from across history and in all shapes and sizes

Experts now convinced the model behind Courbet’s infamous work was Parisian ballet dancer Constance Queniaux

Why did Beijing’s M WOODS museum recently mount two simultaneous exhibitions focusing on the ancient Buddhist site of Kizil, Xinjiang Province?

BY Colin Siyuan Chinnery |

Featuring Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, ‘Womanhouse’ marks the 30th anniversary of the museum dedicated to women artists

BY Jennifer Kabat |

On the gallery's 250th anniversary, Shahidha Bari looks at the work and legacy of Anglica Kauffman and Mary Moser

BY Shahidha Bari |

20 Museum directors from major institutions around the world nominate a favourite work by a woman artist in their collection

The myriad achievements of women artists, writers, curators, patrons and art historians

BY Jennifer Higgie |

Two new exhibitions, at the Wiener Library and the Freud Museum, fastidiously document these landmark moments in history

BY Shelley Klein |

From Antiquity to the present day, women have been crucial in shaping taste, building collections and supporting artists

BY Sheryl E. Reiss |

The first public exhibition of a 15th-century altar-hanging prompts the question: who made it?

BY Mimi Chu |

An art historian explains what the Carters’s takeover of the Paris museum says about art, race and power

BY James Smalls |

Italian art historians claim that the 15th-century tile is the Renaissance master’s earliest known work – but a leading Leonardo expert disagrees

The Carters’s museum takeover powers through art history’s greatest hits – with a serious message about how the canon treats black bodies

A surprising show of silhouettes at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. sheds light on obscure chapters of US history 

BY Evan Moffitt |

Rocío Aranda-Alvarado anticipates an insightful grouping of American painters at Frieze New York 2018

BY Rocío Aranda-Alvarado |

At Museo Tamayo, artists respond to the myth of the French playwright and theorist’s drug-fuelled collapse in the mountains of rural Mexico

BY Evan Moffitt |

The new television series invokes violence and fear as defining forces of civilization, just like the Kenneth Clark original

BY Nathaniel Budzinski |

With Macron poised to make changes to France's handling of ethnographic art, the quai Branly would do well to follow suit

BY Cody Delistraty |

Patrick Grainville's new novel, Cliff of Fools, captures the life of the artist as vividly as his own canvases

BY Jeffrey Zuckerman |