At Large

Edward Hopper, Cobb's Barns, South Truro (1930–1933). Josephine N. Hopper Bequest.COURTESY THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
The Whitney’s Plan to Deaccession an Edward Hopper Sparks Conversations on Museum Ethics

The first director of the …

Katheryn Winnick as Lagertha from the popular History Channel show Vikings. Characters such as Lagertha exemplify the modern fascination with Viking warrior women, also known as Shield Maidens. Though dramatized for TV by Winnick, Lagertha is thought to be a historical individual known mainly through Norwegian folktales and the Danish history written in the 12th century CE by Saxo Grammaticus.
Digging up Gender Identity in Viking Burials

The concept of gender has proven to be a tempestuous topic for decades now.

From Thad Mumford’s storage unit, said to be by Basquiat, “Untitled (Self-portrait with his cowboy hat and wearing Leonardo da Vinci’s flying suit),” from 1982 on corrugated cardboard.
The Crazy Story of Fake Basquiats in Orlando

If you haven’t been keeping up with what’s going on at the Orlando Museum of Art, buckle in, this one is weird and getting more interesting by the day. Last…

Keith Haring Untitled acrylic on vinyl tarpaulin with metal grommets 121 1/2 by 118 3/4 in. 308.6 by 301.6 cm. Executed in 1982.
Pop Art: 6 Artists Other than Andy Warhol
Pop Art emerged in the US and the UK in the 1950s. The work of pop artists often elevates seemingly mundane or mass-produced items and imagery as a critique of the fine art world and its elitist…
Margaret Bourke-White, photograph from “Franklin Roosevelt’s Wild West,” LIFE, November 23, 1936
Female Photographers Who Shaped the Way We Look at the World
All employed by LIFE magazine, these women—six of the most important photographers of the past century—contributed to the development of modern photojournalism between the 1930s and the early…
A Monet painting, Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat, was purposefully punched by a visitor at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. The man’s actions left three large rips in the paintings canvas. Credit: SWNS via Metro
How to be an Ethical Tourist in Archeological Sites and Museums
For many first-time visitors, there is a special kind of excitement that accompanies seeing a famous archaeological monument or work of art in person.
Fondazione Magnani-Rocca ©DACS 2022
Giorgio Morandi: Art for Art’s Sake
Attention to detail, subtle shifts of perspective, angles of surface, and objects overlapping or jutted up against one another; Giorgio Morandi’s sheer inventiveness with ordinary objects is…
Erik Bulatov, Danger, 1972-1973, Oil on canvas, Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris, 2000.0868, Photo Peter Jacobs
How Soviet Non-Conformist Art Challenged Creative Repression in the USSR
Non-Conformist Art was counter-culture art that went against the state-approved Socialist Realism in the former Soviet Union in the latter half of the 20th century.
The outer wall of the Colosseum partially still standing
New Excavations at Rome’s Colosseum

Interesting things are happening at the …

Matt Johnson, Untitled (Swan), 2016. 
Public Art’s Major Role on a University Campus
Public art on university campuses are the physical embodiment of institutional missions, and help to contribute to the creation and maintenance of the places where the community can learn, live, and…
Exterior view of the Pantheon. Wikimedia Commons. Photo by Rabax63
Ancient Roman Concrete Secrets Unraveled by Modern Science

Ever since their construction, the monuments and structures of ancient Rome have amazed and astounded their viewers with their grandeur and the ingenuity of…

Nicole Eisenman, Seder, 2010, oil on canvas, © Nicole Eisenman, Courtesy Jewish Museum
Art Tells the Story of Passover

It’s the first night of Passover! Tonight, Jews all around the world will sit down together and recount the story of their ancestor’s exodus from Egypt and the…

View of Delft File:Vermeer-view-of-delft.jpg - Wikimedia Commons (1960-61)/ Mauritshuis, The Hague
Rijksmuseum Stages the Largest Vermeer Exhibition Ever
The largest Vermeer exhibition ever staged just opened at the Rijk in Amersterdam. Gathering 28 of his 37 paintings, the exhibition is a closer than ever look into Vermeer’s artistic practice.
Frans Francken the Younger, Kunst- und Raritätenkammer (Chamber of Art and Curiosities), 1636. Oil on panel.
The Cabinet of Curiosities & Colonialism
Although such collections were kept by a wide range of groups and individuals—from Tsars to churches and apothecaries to scientific academies—a new wave of scholars have taken particular interest in…
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Y2K Fashion is More Problematic than You Remember
Instagram, shop windows, and street style all shout that the 2000s are back: baggy low-rise jeans, baguette-style purses, paisley halter tops. But what happens when the decade in vogue is neither new…