Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

Students in art history classes might focus on ancient ruins, European landscape painting or Japanese anime. Our classes place value on the study of original objects, and students at all levels make ...

Though many ancient civilizations revered the nude form, the rise of the Catholic Church in the 15th century—and its correlation of sex as sin—changed everything.

The Department of History of Art is a thriving and collegial centre for the study of art, visual culture and theory. Staff specialisms range from medieval altarpieces to Soviet public monuments, from ...

We take a closer look at hermits in art, from ancient statuaries to garden gnomes reimagined by Paul McCarthy.

The Art History area allows you the opportunity to study art and visual culture in context, analyzing the intersection of artistic expression and cultural function. Our faculty lead upper-level ...

Smashing guitars on stage became one of rock’s most rebellious acts. This video explores how legends like Pete Townshend, Jimi Hendrix, and Kurt Cobain turned guitar destruction into an art form. From ...

The Department of History of Art offers a broad-based master's programme, which enables you to study a range of periods and approaches before specialising for your dissertation. The MA draws on the ...

The neighborhood has a jarringly different history for me from the one the New Museum of Contemporary Art chronicles in its new show “East Village USA.” I haven’t seen it yet (it opens ...

“Celtic art,” makes for an interesting category in art history. It is plagued by the issues of the stickiness of the term ...

But its history goes back far beyond even the baby-boomers. Instead of following the art world’s top-down, paternalistic apprenticeship model, these fraternities and brotherhoods (yes ...