Art

Why Victorian Men Had Glorious Beards

The Age of the Beard at the Florence Nightingale Museum in London examines through photographs the Victorian mania for elaborate facial hair.

Art

Learn to Spot Unknown Archaeological Sites from Space

GlobalXplorer relies on crowdsourcing and high-resolution satellite imagery to protect and identify archaeological sites around the world that are currently unknown.

Art

North America's Biggest Art History Conference Touches Down in New York

A weekend of panels and talks is the focus of the annual College Art Association conference.

Art

Despite Censorship Row, a Show Connecting Immigrant Rights and Police Brutality Goes On

The censorship of a work now slated to be reinstated threatened to undo a powerful exhibition of social justice art by artists from the southwestern US.

News

Right-wing Cartoonist Inserts Betsy DeVos into Iconic Civil Rights Painting

Glenn McCoy appropriated Norman Rockwell's "The Problem We All Live With," replacing the six-year-old black girl who desegregated a public school with the billionaire Secretary of Education.

In Brief

Art Historian Appointed to Trump's National Security Council

Victoria Coates, who has written about Nicolas Poussin and Syria's cultural heritage, is the National Security Council's new Senior Director for Strategic Assessments.

Art

Reflections of a Conceptual Expatriate

A conceptual essay that explores where we are.

Art

Mocking Materialism with Collage

In his exhibition at Thierry Goldberg Gallery, David Shrobe uses the nonsensical and irrational as tonics for the relentless instrumentalization of what we purchase and consume.

Opinion

How to Draw a (Picket) Line: Activists Protest Event at Boyle Heights Gallery

A meeting of the Artists' Political Action Network failed to take into account its location in a neighborhood that's been mired in gentrification controversy for quite some time.

Art

Tribute to Palmyra Is the Getty's First-Ever Online Exhibition

Gathering a wealth of historical photographs, prints, and writing, the Getty offers the public a look at the legacy and allure of Palmyra.

News

Controversial Assassination Picture Wins 2017 World Press Photo Award [UPDATED]

This year's World Press Photo winners were selected from 80,408 images submitted by 5,034 photographers from 125 countries

Art

Gavin Turk's Outdated Provocations

An exhibition of Turk's works in the London museum of fellow Young British Artist Damien Hirst fails to make a case for the longevity of his art historical in-jokes.