Yesterday I received three copies of Salem’s Centuries. New Perspectives on the History of an Old American City, and Tuesday is publication day, so I thought I’d provide an introductory post. The cruc...

Bard Graduate Center is pleased to announce that the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize for the best book on the decorative arts, design history, or material culture of the Americas published...

WASHINGTON, DC — The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) is rewriting art history with its groundbreaking exhibition “Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750.” The Dutch version of ...

Here are 12 women Old Masters benefitting from a tide of rediscovery

In the 1820s, there was a little-known quest to unite the world by building a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. As new Spanish American natio...

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As reproductive rights continue to be under siege, we remember Katharine Dexter McCormick, a key figure in expanding access to birth control pills in the U.S. At one point in the late 1940s or early '...