This terrific study by Johns Hopkins Humanities professor Fried is, in effect, two books, both of enormous importance and value. The first is a pioneering and thorough (if idiosyncratic) critical ...

“The Western Wall,” painted by Gustav Bauernfeind, was discovered in storage at a California synagogue. (New York Jewish Week) – A hyper-realistic 19th-century painting of worshippers at the Western ...

Prolegomena to the nineteenth century : Copley and the American tradition -- Washington Allston : an American romantic tradition -- Thomas Cole : the dilemma of the real and the ideal -- Asher B.

"Restoring the role of theatrical performance as both subject and trope in the aesthetics of self-representation, Staging the Artist questions how nineteenth-century French and Belgian artists ...

In recognition of the 150th anniversary of Impressionism and the important contributions of Denmark's Skagen art colony to the groundbreaking movement, the Bruce is presenting "The Art of Work: ...

When I first visited Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art not long after it opened in 2011, I arrived prepared to be unconvinced. The circumstances encouraged it. A major new American art museum, ...