From Spoons to Garter Belts: Inscribing Time
Daniel Woolf on the Yale Center for British Art collection, Marking Time Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really
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Art
Art’s Progressive Politics: A New Public Sphere?
Donato Loia on David Joselit T he last forty years have seen a boom in academic studies. There are thousands of specialist books
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Façades of Faith: Reading Church Architecture
Vasileios Marinis on Allen Doig Church histories are rarely concerned with ecclesiastical buildings. Those of us who peruse such books have certainly noticed
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James Wood and The Visionless Age
Samuel Liu on James Wood’s Serious Noticing Perhaps there is no essay by James Wood more thrilling than his piece on metaphor in
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How The Working Class Became Children: The Politics of Kindness in A Victorian Novel
Karen Swallow Prior on Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty March 30 marks the 200th birthday of Anna Sewell, whose only published work, Black Beauty,
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Islamic Art History: The Myth of Secularity
Wendy M.K. Shaw in Conversation Art history is often presented as a field cleansed of religious impulses during the process of modernity. This
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The Painted Book: Illumination Revived
Jakub Koguciuk reviews Jonathan J.G. Alexander’s The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy Study of manuscript illumination in the Renaissance appeared pronounced dead before
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Is There Racism in Heaven?
Nick Cave’s Until at MASS MoCA Until by Nick Cave, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, on view through September 4, 2017. Nick Cave
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The Qur’an Illuminated
Yael Rice on Islamic Book and Manuscript Arts in America In October 2016, during the final month of a fractious presidential election that
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Beautiful and Meaningless
Bosch and Bruegel Beyond Iconography In the tenth canto of the Inferno, the poet Dante and his guide Virgil make their way through
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