How Islamic art history has been constrained by colonialism, war, and Western epistemologies; and how it calls for a fundamental rethinking of the field.

When Edward Said published his book Orientalism in 1978, his insights shattered previous notions of East-West relations and ...

Faced with marginalization and disinterest, Asian artists living in 1920s and 1930s Paris are now the subject of a major new ...

Drag balls in the 19th century, the Black Pearl Awards and, of course, the High Heel Race. Why might Washington, a famously ...

From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum ...

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

In the lead-up to the reopening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C ... It is open to the public and anchored by five 19th-century Urhobo wood carvings of warriors and royalty ...

Swords 1 to 6 have been identified as 19th century Dahomean swords and sword 7 is a European cutlass or couteau de chasse dated to the second half of the 18th century. Credit: Heritage (2025). DOI ...

The DIA has been acquiring African American art for more than 50 years. The stars of the collection cover a dizzy variety of styles cover some 175 years, from the 19th Century painter Robert S.

A previously lost painting representing 19th-century Black wealth and high culture ... now South Camac Street, into a museum of African American history and art. That house, which no longer stands, ...

“This piece is really unique in that it is very rare to find 19th Century ... was also an avid art collector who turned rooms of his house into an early museum dedicated to African American ...

Ghana is receiving 28 gold ornaments and regalia crafted by 19th-century artisans of the Asante court in ... The Edo Museum of West African Art in Nigeria, for instance, is now home to some of the ...