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Art History

A visitor sits in front of Hito Steyerl’s Green Screen, a glowing LED wall of red, pink and green lights.

Zero 10 in Basel Contextualized Digital Art Within a Broader Historical Framework

The sector framed new media and computer art not as a market novelty but as part of a long history of artists engaging with new tools, systems and machines.
By Elisa Carollo
A composite image shows the book cover of Trading Beauty: Art Market Histories from the Altar to the Gallery by Valentina Castellani alongside a black-and-white portrait of a smiling woman with straight, shoulder-length hair.

In “Trading Beauty,” Valentina Castellani Makes the Case That Markets and Masterpieces Have Always Been Inseparable

Artworks, she argues, have never been made in a vacuum, and so understanding the market is an essential part of understanding the art.
By Dan Duray
A close-up portrait of Marchesa Luisa Casati, her face framed by her hands, wearing a fur-trimmed garment and her signature heavily kohl-lined eyes. The sepia-toned photograph captures an unusual stillness — intense but unperformed, unlike nearly every other image she left behind.

The Most Outrageous Woman Who Ever Spent a Fortune

Before Karl Lagerfeld, before Alexander McQueen, before anyone thought to call fashion art, one Italian heiress was wandering through St. Mark's Square in nothing but a fur coat and a philosophy.
By Jennifer Ashley Wright
Portrait of Henry Clay Frick in the West Gallery of his Pittsburg home, Clayton c. 1925.

The Frick Legacy: Taste, Ambition and a Collector’s Monument

By Megan Fox Kelly
An impressionist oil painting of a woman in a blue shawl reading a newspaper by a sunlit window framed by leafy green vines.

Curator and Art Historian Camille Morineau On Finding the Women Artists of the American West

By Sarah Moroz
An iPad screen displays an art discovery app featuring a section titled "Amsterdam" with a background image of traditional Dutch canal houses and a row of famous paintings under the "Masterpieces" section.

Zuzanna Stańska’s DailyArt Offers Access to Art Without Ulterior Motives

By Christa Terry
A book cover for The Caravaggio Syndrome, a novel by Alessandro Giardino, showing a woman with her eyes closed resting her head against a suspended, lifeless arm, with the title and author’s name in bold serif font on a maroon background and a large Baroque painting of a chaotic scene featuring the martyrdom of Saint Matthew, where an angel descends above a group of struggling figures, with a woman and child watching from above.

How Alessandro Giardino Found His First Novel in Caravaggio’s ‘The Seven Acts of Mercy’

By Dian Parker
A framed oil painting in the foreground depicts an older man with a fur hat, a pipe in his mouth, and a weathered face, standing near the sea with a ship's rigging visible, painted in a rough, expressive style with bold brushstrokes and a muted color palette. A smaller, more refined framed painting in the bottom right corner portrays a similar older man with a fur hat and a pipe, sitting against a neutral background, holding what appears to be a fishing net or rope, painted in a smoother, more detailed style with a realistic rendering of facial features and clothing.

‘Elimar,’ Van Gogh’s Translations and the Persistent Myth of the Multi-Million-Dollar Garage Sale Find

By Christa Terry
A woman wearing yellow with brown hair poses for the camera with her chin resting on her fist

Katy Hessel Talks About Putting Women Artists Front and Center at Five Major Museums

By Sarah Moroz
Two stylised female figures with clock in hand

Who Was Jan Toorop, the Artist Who Inspired Gustav Klimt?

By Simon Coates

Art Historians Take to TikTok to Shake Up the Narrative

By Rebecca Ann Hughes

Winold Reiss in New York: What Does it Mean to Be Modern?

By Anne Wallentine

Charlie English’s ‘The Gallery of Miracles and Madness’ Is a Necessary Read

By Ella Fox-Martens

An Art History Professor’s Tips for Taking Your Kids on a World Tour—From Home

By Noah Charney
Declaration Descendants for Ancestry but Droga5 New York.

‘Declaration of Independence’ Painting Recreated With Founders’ Diverse Descendants

By Alanna Martinez
The show features near life-size reproductions of Michelangelo's word famous frescoes.

Now You Don’t Have to Travel to Rome to See Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel

By Alanna Martinez
The Townley Discobolus is displayed in The British Museum's 'Winning at the ancient Games' victory trail on June 1, 2012 in London, England. To celebrate the London Olympics, the British Museum is staging a trail for visitors to highlight various objects connected by the theme of winning, many synonymous with the games of ancient Greece and Rome.

Google Knows You Love Art and It’s Changing With Fans’ Tastes in Mind

By Alanna Martinez
Is there a geometry lesson hidden in ‘The Last Supper’?

Did Artists Lead the Way in Mathematics?

By Henry Adams
Jeff Koons with a bag from his Masters Collection collaboration with Louis Vuitton.

Jeff Koons Makes Old Masters This Spring’s Must-Have Accessories Trend

By Alanna Martinez
Stay brushed-up on your art history with

Stay Brushed-Up On Your Art History with DailyArt

By Ariel Maile Adkins
Vikings on the History Channel.

How 3-D Printing Is Bringing ‘Vikings’ History to Life

By Alanna Martinez
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 06: Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-AZ), (C), walks away after speaking to the media after attending a weekly luncheon with Senate Democrats at the Capitol, December 6, 2016 in Washington, DC. Senate Democrats gathered at the weekly luncheon to discuss their upcoming agenda.

Senator Harry Reid’s Art World Legacy, Tallying NY’s Gallery Closures

By Alanna Martinez
Waldemar Cordeiro, (Brazilian, 1925–1973). Visible Idea, 1956.

Jail for Wildensteins? MoMA to Establish Institute for Latin American Art, and More

By Guelda Voien
Kris Martin, Altar, 2014. Part of Panorama, a High Line Commission. On view April 2015 – March 2016. (Photo: Timothy Schenck/Courtesy Friends of the High Line)

The Most Frequently Stolen Artwork in History Is…On the High Line?

By Noah Charney
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