Art History

On March 14, 2018, Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, was honored with the distinguished title of Chun-tu Hsueh Chair Professor at Nanjing University. Recognized for his expertise in the study of 20th-century European and...

The Onassis Cultural Center New York has won the Global Fine Art Awards’ 2017 Youniversal Award, the audience award determined by popular vote. The exhibition A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 B.C.—200 A.D., co-curated by Angelos Chaniotis...

Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, discussed Picasso's complex relationship with abstraction with Artsy's Abigail Cain, saying “I thought that it was a very interesting thing. If someone as fearless as Picasso could...

Many of the images we associate with the plague actually depict leprosy or smallpox. In fact, there are very few images of the Black Death from the time of the scourge.

Monica H. Green, former Member in the School of Historical Studies, is among the...

Sharon Gerstel, Member (2010-11) in the School of Historical Studies, has been awarded the Maria Theocharis Prize by the Christian Archaeological Society in Greece.

Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, will a give a public lecture, “Matisse’s Scale: What’s with the Bamboo Stick?,” on Friday, May 5, which will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn...

The first line of one of the oldest poems in Western literature, Homer’s “Iliad,” begins with the ancient Greek word for anger, or superanger: wrath. And from that emotion an entire epic driven by hatred, hubris, lust, grief and violence spins out....