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Art History
Recovering a ‘lost’ account
Kerry Bristol discusses the building No.11 St James’s Square, London and the Winns’ lifestyle and collecting practices outlined…
Asian Self-Representation at World’s Fairs
William Peterson discusses expressions of an empowered Asian self-representation at world’s fairs in the West after the so-called…
Aegean Bronze Age Art: Meaning in the Making
Carl Knappett discusses distinct actions – such as modelling, combining, and imprinting – whereby meaning is scaffolded through…
The First Modern Museums of Art
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the first modern, public museums of art—civic, state, or national—appeared throughout…
Two Decades of American Painting in Australia, 1967
In 1967 the exhibition Two Decades of American Painting, organised by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, travelled…
Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin
As a French artist who lived in Polynesia, Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) occupies a crucial position in histories of…
Hope and Healing
Franco Mormando discusses the first exhibition in North America to examine the response of visual art to the plague.
The Art of Armenia
Armenia has a material history and visual culture that reaches back to the Paleolithic era. Christina Maranci discusses…
Designing Energy Use in a Rural Setting
Standen, built between 1891 and 1894, is known as the first country house to have had electric lighting…
Robert Peel, John Doyle and Visual Parody
For the last three hundred years British politics have been enlivened and illustrated by wonderful satirical prints and…
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