Physiognomy, The Beautiful Pseudoscience
How did this dubious science influence European art and culture?
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Victims of Soicumstance: My Automatic Visual Reactions to Messerschmidt
Big, bald, and menacing: reactions to Messerschmidt’s A Hypocrite and a Slanderer.
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New SCI-Arc Media Archive Allows Forward-Oriented Institution to Look Back
A new online media archive offers conversations with makers and thinkers of our time.
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New Exhibition Offers Look Inside Pompeii’s Interiors
Prints and photographs look inside the houses and villas of Pompeii.
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The “Scandalous Life” of César Moro
Artist and poet Moro was a central figure in the early 20th-century avant-garde.
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A New Look at Ray K. Metzker
A new exhibition spotlights Metzker, one of the great photographers of the last half century.
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Meet the Artist Who Helped Launch the Renaissance in Florence
Pacino di Bonaguida? Little known today, he was a key figure in Renaissance Florence.
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It Takes a Village: Understanding Spanish American Colonial Art from the Ground Up
International scholars investigate the materials used in Spanish American colonial art.
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Being Jewish in Austria: Four Questions for Writer and Critic Ruth Kluger
A conversation with writer, literary critic, and Vienna native Ruth Kluger.
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18th-Century Art for the 21st-Century Classroom
What can you do with French decorative arts, paper, and scissors?
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Nazis Collecting Art: Art Dealer Gustav Cramer’s Wartime Records
Letters and records reveal rare information about the art market during World War II.
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Apocalypse Then: Bulwer-Lytton’s “The Last Days of Pompeii”
The volcanic melodrama paints a picture of a decadent and sinful Pompeii, ready to end.
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