and philosophy of hundreds of years of Western history. A Renaissance scholar, art historian, and food and wine writer, Barkan organized his book according to his self-proclaimed ‘hungry eye ...

An image of a golden toilet is foil-stamped on the front cover of A History of the Western Art Market, an extraordinary compendium about the business of art. A precisely cut clear-coat foil ...

This spring, the final rendition of the course will seek to question the idea of Western art itself — a marked difference from the course’s focus at its inception. Art history department chair and the ...

The great irony, I fear, is that rather than engaging with Western and global history, moral and political ideas, and literature, music and art in a serious, sustained and critical way, our campuses ...

Throughout the history of Western art, certain concepts have remained durable. Style. Iconography. Representation. Even when these categories are being inverted or rejected, they remain at the ...

The church’s role and support of the arts throughout the development of Western civilization cannot be underestimated. With that in mind, I stress the importance of art history as part of the ...