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Art History

Portrait of Henry Clay Frick in the West Gallery of his Pittsburg home, Clayton c. 1925.

The Frick Legacy: Taste, Ambition and a Collector’s Monument

Megan Fox Kelly, a leading professional art advisor, examines Henry Clay Frick’s transformation of industrial wealth into cultural legacy, unpacking how his strategies in collecting, refinement and display continue to shape today’s standards of taste. Kelly argues that Frick’s legacy offers timeless lessons in discernment, ambition and stewardship for today’s collectors navigating a complex and competitive art market.
By Megan Fox Kelly
A visitor sits in front of Hito Steyerl’s Green Screen, a glowing LED wall of red, pink and green lights.

Zero 10 in Basel Contextualized Digital Art Within a Broader Historical Framework

The sector framed new media and computer art not as a market novelty but as part of a long history of artists engaging with new tools, systems and machines.
By Elisa Carollo
A composite image shows the book cover of Trading Beauty: Art Market Histories from the Altar to the Gallery by Valentina Castellani alongside a black-and-white portrait of a smiling woman with straight, shoulder-length hair.

In “Trading Beauty,” Valentina Castellani Makes the Case That Markets and Masterpieces Have Always Been Inseparable

Artworks, she argues, have never been made in a vacuum, and so understanding the market is an essential part of understanding the art.
By Dan Duray

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
The New York Observer logo in black against a peach background.

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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