One hundred years ago, a sprawling international exhibition was staged in Paris. It was intended to dazzle visitors with all that was new in architecture, design, fashion, and jewelry, and to ...

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

At Alfonso Artiaco in Naples, two artists with two distinct visions—one working primarily in sculpture, the other painting—delicately tap into the nature of color, form, and viewer experience, ...

A COUNTRY’S art is not an isolated thing; it is the concert of all forces of its spirit. German art as a specific “color” of Western culture materialized in the nascent thirteenth-century Gothic, and ...

Introduction: Why Do We Study the History of Art? -- Western tradition -- Artistic impulse -- Chronology -- Why is art valued? -- Material value -- Intrinsic value -- Religious value -- Nationalistic ...