The ultimate insult was that the very identity the original Irish had fought to preserve was now being co-opted and celebrated, but in a way that removed its political and historical significance. The ...

Many of his compositions are inspired by abstract painters such as Ellsworth Kelly and Yun Hyong-keun. Sean Scully’s ...

In the US, a beard was often seen as a symbol of the Abolitionist movement. John Brown sported one. So did John C. Frémont, the anti-slavery Republican who lost the 1856 presidential election. Abraham ...

Three shows use the university’s collections to look at its history of collecting art and teaching art history.

A La Vieille Russie, Véronique Bamps, Didier Ltd., Wartski, S.J. Phillips and Marjan Sterk are among the antique and vintage ...

The war on the tuxedo continued in Conan O’Brien’s opening monologue, where he noted that it is “important that everyone is ...

Unlike Manet, Degas, Renoir and Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte mostly painted men rather than women — men at work, men in ...

A groundbreaking show at the Louvre dedicated to the medieval painter Cimabue includes an exceptionally rare panel discovered ...

The Gilded Age was the era in the late 19th century when business and industry dominated American life as never before or since. It was a period of unprecedented economic growth and technological ...

Known as the March First Movement or the Samil Movement, the historic uprising on March 1, 1919, is widely recognized as a ...

What do the landscape painters of Canada and northern Europe have in common? Their muse is the taiga, or boreal forest: a massive ring of mostly coniferous trees that stretches across the Northern ...

I’d like to give thanks to the Guardian, a UK-based newspaper, for helping me find even more poems to share with my faithful ...