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  • It's Women's History Month
    Image © 2008 Grace Hartigan; used with permission

    A large part of Women's History involves extremely crucial but unremarkable tasks that have no place in the official canon. So when my daughter, who will probably someday make history, elbowed me just now and...

  • Saying Hello to an Old Friend
    I'd like to mention the new Art History Plus blog to you for two reasons.

    First, the author is knowledgeable and fun to read. I know this as fact, because she taught me (albeit unknowingly) how to make art history both friendly and approachable.

    Second, the author,...

  • The Caravaggio Exhibition in Rome
    Image © Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; used with permission

    2010 marks the 400th anniversary of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's death. He was 39 when he died and had spent half of his life painting professionally. While Caravaggio's passing came as no huge...

  • Wordless Wednesday - Milky Way
    Image Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY; used with permission

    Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY

    We lost a pioneering African American woman artist on this date (February 24) in 1978. To see who she was,...

  • A Sneak Peek at the Fisher Collection
    Image ©; used with permission

    Although this exhibition won't be opening for another four months, I couldn't wait to publish a preview for a number of reasons. First, the Fisher Collection is quite simply outstanding. The Gap store founders Doris and (the late)...

  • Wordless Wednesday - Pick Apart the Allegory
    Image © The National Gallery, London; used with permission

    Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572)
    An Allegory with Venus and Cupid, ca. 1545
    Oil on wood
    146.1 x 116.2 cm (57 1/2 x 45 3/4 in.)
    Purchased 1860
    NG651
    National Gallery, London


    Here...

  • Kudos to LACMA's New "Reading Room"
    Fellow art historians, can we ever get enough full and free access to sources? No. No, we cannot. In fact, I suspect that if we had our druthers, every text, dissertation, thesis, review, critical essay, exhibition and/or auction catalogue would live online in full (including footnotes) 24/7/365, forever and ever,...

  • Do You Think Exhuming Leonardo's Corpse Is a Good Idea?
    Public Domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons

    Have you heard that a group of scientists and historians from the Italian National Committee for Cultural Heritage are seeking permission to dig up Leonardo's corpse? Yes, as reported in The Telegraph yesterday, it's true. You,...

  • Mike Mitchell Is With COCO

    Public Domain image courtesy of Mike Mitchell; used with permission Many denizens of the scholarly art history crowd (if they even watch television) probably tune into Charlie Rose for late night entertainment. The rest of us have doubtless heard that NBC has stuck...

  • Wordless Wednesday - Name that Animal
    Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; used with permission

    George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811-1879)
    Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845
    Oil on canvas
    29 x 36 1/2 in. (73.7 x 92.7 cm)
    Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1933 (33.61)
    The Metropolitan...

 
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