art history
Superheroic History Comes Alive in a New Comic Book Exhibition
Drawing the line from the Golden Age of Comics to the present, an exhibit offers a historic look at the medium.
What Can We Learn from 5 Centuries of Unfinished Art?
The Met Breuer’s inaugural show, 'Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible,' lays bare the artistic process.
Victorian Con Men Faked the Middle Ages' Darkest Devices
Iron maidens? Chastity belts? These objects will make you think twice about what you learned in history class.
Here's a Rewind to East Coast Graffiti’s Halcyon Days
John Waters narrates a new documentary about the early East Coast writers that invented what became what we know as modern street art.
The Unusual Chemistry of an Experimental Master Artist | Conservation Lab
A major retrospective of László Moholy-Nagy's work at the Guggenheim called for extensive conservation and research, yielding new insights into the Bauhaus artist’s innovative process.
10 Years Later, a Look Back at Art’s First Reality Show
An in-depth look at the legacy of Jeffrey Deitch's reviled, unprecedented art-TV experiment, 'Artstar.'
Inside Harvard’s Incredible Collection of Rare Pigments | Conservation Lab
What’s behind art history’s most radiant hues? Sea snails, cow urine, and mummy flesh, apparently.
Heaven and Hell Meet in Hieronymus' Hometown
A 'Garden of Earthly Delights' and more emerged at the Het Noordbrabants Museum in the Netherlands for 'Hieronymus Bosch: Visions of Genius.'
Dr. Martens Visually Samples Renaissance Art Legend For New Boot Designs
Heironymous Bosch's apocalyptic "The Garden of Earthly Delights" was sampled by the clothing company. There's definitely a layer of irony here.
'Discount Saints' Imagines the Last Supper with Chinese Takeout, Snapbacks, and Hoop Earrings
For her latest exhibition, artist Melanie Gonzalez merged Renaissance-style Biblical glamour with the look and feel of her native Bronx.