Advances in painting in early modern Europe were the product not just of artistic innovation but of changes in mining and manufacturing technology.

A century after the publication of the first Surrealist manifesto, the role played by film in the movement is still unfolding.

Okubo’s art showed the work of Japanese Americans forced to rehabilitate both the “enemy alien” on the home front and the enemy in the Pacific after the war.

Scholar Alison Habens tells us more about the Greek goddesses who provided divine inspiration for ancient poets.

Our editors have rounded up a collection of stories about art, artists, museums, and the way (and why) we study them.

On the centennial of the founding of Surrealism, this reading list examines its radical beginnings, its mass popularity, and its continued evolution.

We take for granted the Titians and Botticellis that hang in galleries across the United States, little aware of the appetites and inclinations of those who acquired them.

In the late twentieth century, the image of the American quilt shifted from one of practicality and handicraft to a celebration of modernist abstraction.

More than a century ago, Charlotte Cushman presided over a group of queer female artists who supported one another’s creativity and left a pioneering, if overlooked, legacy.

A symbol of resilience and resourcefulness, Lewis remains one of Canada’s best-loved and most-celebrated folk artists.