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The things that make people academics -- as deep fascination with some arcane subject, often borderi
What’s the first image that comes to mind when you hear the words “Paris” and “photography”? Is it a
The images featured in Splashes (RVB Press, 2018) are characteristic of Gabriel Jones’ approach to m
How did American elites change the meaning of Art? In Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expans
In her book, The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession That Shaped
In Changing Saudi Arabia, Art, Culture and Society in the Kingdom (Lynne Rienner, 2019), Sean Foley
In this segment of New Books in History, Jana Byars talks with Elizabeth “Libby” Otto, Associate Pro
A work of art about doing nothing; a work of art that invites people to take it apart; a work of art
The Genji Album (1510) in the Harvard Art Museums is the oldest dated set of Genji illustrations kno
If there’s one thing that conjures up the – rightly contested – idea of a ‘civilisation’, it is gran
The metaphor “object lesson” is a familiar one, still in everyday use. But what exactly does the met
“Fashion is universal,” writes my guest Kimberly Alexander in her book Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories
Along with the rapid expansion of the market economy and industrial production methods, such innovat
Josef Stalin’s death in 1953 marked a noticeable shift in Soviet attitudes towards the West. A nati
In Graphic Satire in the Soviet Union: Krokodil’s Political Cartoons (University Press of Mississipp
Linda M. Grasso's Equal under the Sky: Georgia O’Keeffe & Twentieth-Century Feminism (University
It was the passionate amateur painter, Winston Churchill, who introduced one of the Cold War’s key m
In a world where heritage, culture, creativity, and the capacity to imagine are themselves commodifi
In her original and thought-provoking book Ornamentalism (Oxford University Press, 2019), Anne A. Ch
Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the
