Art History

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....

I never imagined I would do a catalogue raisonné, but I’ve always been interested in such books. Even in literature, I like to get the complete writings of a writer in order to get a full picture—to get an idea of what a writer, an artist...

Sharon Gerstel, Member (2010-11) in the School of Historical Studies and Professor of the UCLA Department of Art History, has won the Runciman Book Prize for the book she was working on at IAS, Rural Lives and Landscapes in Late Byzantium (Cambridge...

Ingrid Daubechies, former Member (1999) in the School of Mathematics, shows how new mathematical techniques can be used to revitalize a 650-year-old work of art.

Glen Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, examines Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the most recent issue of The New York Review of Books...

Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, speaks with Scott Rothkopf, Deputy Director for Programs and Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator, on the occasion of the publication of the first volume of the Ellsworth Kelly...