“Daubigny’s Garden” was painted on a kitchen towel—and its wooden stretcher has labels recording its wartime adventures

One of the Modernist painter’s works, previously cut from the series “White House Plumbers”, figures prominently in the second season of the Fox show

In an exclusive extract from his new Edward Hopper biography, Louis Shadwick tracks down the original works—many reproduced in popular periodicals of the time, with instructions for copying—that formed the basis of all Hopper’s oil paintings before he enrolled in art school

After 20 years of writing non-fiction books, the art historian Bendor Grosvenor is working on a Stuart-era sleuthing novel

Topics covered in the publications range from a Renaissance sculptress and Baroque Rome to 1930s Manchester and Frida Kahlo

A look back at the economic and aesthetic cross-pollination between mother country and colony 250 years after the US declared independence

Taking artworks out of the context they were made in risks demoting them to mere objects

A new book about the history of the art trade highlights how some outsiders became insiders, while others slipped through history's cracks

We speak to the author of a new book that looks at how making prints has been vital for many famous artists

The art historian Gary Schwartz argues that the copy of “Old Man with a Gold Chain” currently hanging alongside the original at the Art Institute of Chicago is by Rembrandt himself, not his workshop

An A to C extract from the glossary of Painted Mysteries, which deciphers common motifs and symbols in famous works

The place where we observe a work of art—and the feelings we have—play a crucial role in our experience

Exhibitions pairing Munch with Paula Modersohn-Becker and Maria Lassnig provide opportunities to subvert the established order

We need to reframe the subject as one worth knowing about, rather than focusing on its use

The civilised lustre of the great collectors could camouflage a lust that had more to do with greed than beauty

The book provides a fresh perspective on famous works, cruising through the last few centuries of Western art

The announcement follows a new report which revealed a sharp decrease in the numbers of schools teaching art history

To read a painting is to understand the context in which it was made, not the context in which we see it, writes Bendor Grosvenor

Karen Leader was placed on administrative leave from her tenured position at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton

The French thinker held seminars on painting and philosophy at the short-lived Centre Universitaire Expérimental de Vincennes

“This is how art history gets written, from these primary-source materials,” says Stanford’s art and architecture librarian

An exhibition in New York spotlights an intriguing episode in trade history , in which an influx of foreign artists to Rome prompted everyone from barbers to lawyers in the city to develop side hustles as art dealers

The culture minister is calling for a new, world-class space for the national collection, currently housed in three locations in Reykjavik

The museum is preparing to open a major new building in the heart of the Polish capital

With the Royal Academy the only UK institution now teaching connoisseurship, too many students of art history are missing out on learning an important skill

The Art History Now project sees over 90 big names share new reflections on what art history means to them

The gallery's curators reveal the role played by living artists and women in building the institution’s all-embracing character over the past 200 years

The recent research also suggests that the famous Italian landmark was part of a broader building programme

Bacon believed the Dutch artist deformed reality “to make it more real”

Fluttering butterflies enliven the greenery, but also remind us of the transience of life