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Art Historians Take to TikTok to Shake Up the Narrative

“TikTok art history content has the potential to grow an audience rapidly because there is not this intimidation that you sometimes have with the more theoretically loaded sources.”
By Rebecca Ann Hughes

Winold Reiss in New York: What Does it Mean to Be Modern?

Consequently, Reiss has remained, for the most part, “one of the United States’ most influential artists and designers of the twentieth century…that you’ve never heard of.” 
By Anne Wallentine

Charlie English’s ‘The Gallery of Miracles and Madness’ Is a Necessary Read

Elegant and exhaustively-researched, English outlines the rise of “psychiatric art” in Weimar-era Germany, tracking its influence and eventual clash with Hitler’s obsession with remolding the artistic character of Germany.
By Ella Fox-Martens

An Art History Professor’s Tips for Taking Your Kids on a World Tour—From Home

By Noah Charney
Declaration Descendants for Ancestry but Droga5 New York.

‘Declaration of Independence’ Painting Recreated With Founders’ Diverse Descendants

By Alanna Martinez
The show features near life-size reproductions of Michelangelo's word famous frescoes.

Now You Don’t Have to Travel to Rome to See Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel

By Alanna Martinez
The Townley Discobolus is displayed in The British Museum's 'Winning at the ancient Games' victory trail on June 1, 2012 in London, England. To celebrate the London Olympics, the British Museum is staging a trail for visitors to highlight various objects connected by the theme of winning, many synonymous with the games of ancient Greece and Rome.

Google Knows You Love Art and It’s Changing With Fans’ Tastes in Mind

By Alanna Martinez
Is there a geometry lesson hidden in ‘The Last Supper’?

Did Artists Lead the Way in Mathematics?

By Henry Adams
Jeff Koons with a bag from his Masters Collection collaboration with Louis Vuitton.

Jeff Koons Makes Old Masters This Spring’s Must-Have Accessories Trend

By Alanna Martinez
Stay brushed-up on your art history with

Stay Brushed-Up On Your Art History with DailyArt

By Ariel Maile Adkins
Vikings on the History Channel.

How 3-D Printing Is Bringing ‘Vikings’ History to Life

By Alanna Martinez
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 06: Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-AZ), (C), walks away after speaking to the media after attending a weekly luncheon with Senate Democrats at the Capitol, December 6, 2016 in Washington, DC. Senate Democrats gathered at the weekly luncheon to discuss their upcoming agenda.

Senator Harry Reid’s Art World Legacy, Tallying NY’s Gallery Closures

By Alanna Martinez
Waldemar Cordeiro, (Brazilian, 1925–1973). Visible Idea, 1956.

Jail for Wildensteins? MoMA to Establish Institute for Latin American Art, and More

By Guelda Voien
Kris Martin, Altar, 2014. Part of Panorama, a High Line Commission. On view April 2015 – March 2016. (Photo: Timothy Schenck/Courtesy Friends of the High Line)

The Most Frequently Stolen Artwork in History Is…On the High Line?

By Noah Charney

Framed? A Rauschenberg is Silent Witness in a 1954 Brooklyn Murder

By Gallerist

President Obama Thinks Art History Degree Is Kind of Useless, Doesn’t Want You to E-Mail Him About It

By M.H. Miller
Ruscha's 1962 poster. (Courtesy Norton Simon Museum)

It’s the 50th Anniversary of Walter Hopps’s ‘New Painting of Common Objects’ Show Today

By Andrew Russeth
Rosalind Krauss (Photo: MIT Press)

Art Historian Rosalind Krauss Nabs High Honor

By Andrew Russeth
Earlier this year, Michelle Bachmann asked an audience in Iowa if they had ever watched the film series "How Should We Then Live?" Have we ever!

Michelle Bachmann’s Art History Lessons

By Andrew Russeth
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