In an excerpt from his Mellon Lectures, art historian Wu Hung explains how Enlightenment ideas underpin—and complicate—the long history of Chinese art. A view of the terracotta army in the mausoleum ...

How to fuse a more inclusive education for global citizenship with a genuine fluency with Western art, history and philosophy. When I was a young, I read and re-read Marion N. French’s Myths and ...

Watching the celebrations for the inauguration of the New York City mayor, my mind suddenly turned back to my intellectual career early in this century. I remembered some writings I had almost ...

This week on Under the Radar with Callie Crossley: Chances are, if you’re an art fan and a museum-goer, you’ve seen Western artwork featuring Black people. Their likenesses are tucked in the corners ...

A copyright case about Warhol’s work could change the future of Western art — and, in a sense, its history, too. Credit...Tyler Comrie Supported by By Blake Gopnik Any day now, the Supreme Court will ...

Art history encompasses the study of images, objects, and buildings from a broad range of historical periods and geographical regions, providing a doorway into many rich and diverse cultures ...