On the 200th anniversary of art critic John Ruskin’s birth, the Department of Art and Art History is holding a public lecture titled ‘John Ruskin (1819-1900): Travels, nature and art’, by Mark Sagona.

USC hosted the John Ruskin Art Club, the oldest arts and cultural association in Los Angeles, Thursday night at Doheny Library for a lecture on the club’s founder, John Ruskin. “This is really our ...

11 May 1904: Ruskin’s skills as an artist were explored at a well attended lecture held at Manchester town hall The last of the series of lectures in connection with the Ruskin Exhibition in ...

The first time John Ruskin noticed the gray clouds of the “plague-wind” was in 1871, decades into the industrial era. Walking home from work at the University of Oxford one spring day, the renowned ...

Frederick Hollyer, “Portrait of John Ruskin (Datur Hora Quieti)” (ca. 1894), platinum print, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University (all images courtesy of the Yale Center for ...

In the 200 years since his birth on February 8th, 1819, the reputation of John Ruskin, whose art criticism developed into a radical attack on the economic amorality of Victorian society, has waxed and ...