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Take any major historical Western art movement from the 16th century through today and you can bet women played an important role. Until the last handful of years, you can also bet that male scholars ...

Re “It’s Not Dry Yet” by Roberta Smith [March 28]: The phrase “Painting is dead” has consistently plagued many young artists, and now, thankfully, Ms. Smith takes up the topic. The return of the ...

Joanna Mendelssohn has in the past received funding from the Australian Research Council. In awarding the 2017 Archibald Prize to Mitch Cairns’s portrait of his partner, Agatha Gothe-Snape, the ...

It’s not unusual for conservationists to discover new details in Old Master paintings, but a whole whale? That’s what turned up in Hendrick van Anthonissen‘s 17th-century seascape painting View of ...

Trying to navigate the history of art—its artists, its ideas, its interpretations and interrelations, its foundations and attitudes—can be inspiring yet also intimidating. (Cue image of an Ancient ...