Mary Cassatt’s pastel portrait ‘Sara in a Bonnet’ (C. 1901). (Courtesy SBMA, Bequest of Leslie L. Ridley-Tree) Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s (SBMA) Art lecture series Art Matters will present a talk ...

CHMMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Through in-depth essays on selected issues related to the meaning of ornament and its theoretical importance for the formation of ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Can a museum devoted to modernism survive the death of the movement? Can it ...

Huey Copeland, BFC Presidential Associate Professor of History of Art, was awarded the 2024 James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Award in African American Art History for a volume on modernism and ...

The idea of integration between art and architecture dates back to the very origin of the discipline, however, it took on a new meaning and social purpose during the Avant-Garde movement of the early ...

Art history is more than memorising dates and famous names; it requires understanding context, symbolism, technique, and ...

Shakir Hassan Al Said, 'Letters,' 1961. Oil, gesso, cotton, linen canvas, 94.2 cm x 82 cm x 2.5 cm. At first glance, it would be difficult to discern this artwork as coming from Arab origins, and not ...

Scholar and curator Chika Okeke-Agulu talks about the meaning Nigeria's 1960s art upsurge. Uche Okeke, Fantasy and Masks (ca.1960). © The Prof Uche Okeke Legacy ...