"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Art Nouveau, or "new art" in French, is an architectural and artistic movement that emerged in the late ...

Three big ‘PST Art: Art and Science Collide’ exhibitions include marvelous objects, but only one show is satisfying. The Getty Museum’s exhilarating ‘Lumen: The Art and Science of Light’ surveys ...

Cave paintings are often called the first art ever made. But can we really call these early cave people artists?

On the occasion of the publication of Is Art History?, a definitive volume of writings by one of the most renowned art historians of the past half century Svetlana Alpers, BFA Visual & Critical ...

So asked UC Berkeley art historian Svetlana Alpers in a savvy 1977 essay, a question posed early in an exceptional 60-year career. Alpers, now 88, went on to become a leading historian of Dutch Golden ...