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art history

The Author’s Corner with Elizabeth L. Block

Rachel Petroziello   |  October 7, 2024

Elizabeth L. Block is an art historian and a Senior Editor in the Publications and Editorial Department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This interview is based on her new book, Beyond Vanity: The History and Power […]

The Author’s Corner with Elizabeth A. Athens

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 26, 2024

Elizabeth A. Athens is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Connecticut. This interview is based on her new book, William Bartram’s Visual Wonders: The Drawings of an American Naturalist (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024). JF: What led […]

Interview: Lanta Davis on Becoming by Beholding: The Power of the Imagination in Spiritual Formation

Nadya Williams   |  September 19, 2024

We are what we read–and what we behold.

The Author’s Corner with Vanessa Meikle Schulman

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 13, 2024

Vanessa Meikle Schulman is Associate Professor of Art History at George Mason University. This interview is based on her new book, Art during Wartime: Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North (University of Massachusetts Press, 2024). JF: What led […]

What is going on at Hamline University?

John Fea   |  January 12, 2023

An art history professor at Hamline University in Minnesota was fired for showing a 14th-century painting of the prophet Muhammad. I will let writer Jill Filipovic take it from here. Below is a taste of her recent piece at Slate […]