Whenever French 18th-century artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard is mentioned, it’s almost always as a counterpoint to her better-known “rival,” Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun.

Her face has gazed over midtown Manhattan traffic for over a century, but it wasn’t until 2023 that Hettie Anderson received official public recognition in words.

The 16th-century “Isenheim Altarpiece” confronts us with the reality of suffering, violence, and death in a century where violence is both omnipresent and obscured.

The artist’s perplexing paintings should be viewed not as mere visual puzzles, but instantiations of an occult philosophy.

Since antiquity, periods of political uncertainty have generated spurious proclamations of the Antichrist, from Nero to Taylor Swift.

He believed, and demonstrated, that individuals could ascend to divine realms of knowledge.

In the 19th century ledger drawings became a concentrated point of resistance for Indigenous people, an expression of individual and communal pride.

From polycules and break-ups to situationships and forbidden love, Hyperallergic has you covered this February 14.

Artificial Intelligence may efficiently sort images but loses out to a humanistic approach.

Artists and craftsmen have imagined and reimagined the ubiquitous time tracker, creating innovative designs to keep an eye on the passing days.

We asked two scholars about the strange depictions of fauna and why they’ve become a viral phenomenon.

The 16th-century “Florentine Codex” offers a Mexican Indigenous perspective that is often missing from historical accounts of the period.

“América invertida” by Uruguayan-Spanish artist Joaquín Torres García was always meant to be a mission statement.

If you’re planning a visit to Rome, write down your list of can’t-miss sites. Then, go to these ones instead.

Olivia Chiang’s “Not Your Grandfather’s Art History: A BIPOC Reader” is a free online compilation of essays that explore lesser-told canons.

Izzy Pludwinski's new book looks at the evolution of Hebrew calligraphy, from sacred scrolls through modern art and graffiti.

A new publication contextualizes the historical and contemporary book traditions in South Asia.

Long before Greta Gerwig’s movie, artists were critiquing Barbie’s influence on women — and Mattel didn't always approve.

The nude figure as a subject has been a battleground issue for as long as it’s been a staple of fine art.

Katy Hessel’s new survey of women artists leaves out men, but also falls short of offering a new take on feminist art history.

Matthew Wilson’s new book, The Hidden Language of Symbols, chronicles the buried visual cues of power, faith, uncertainty, and hope.

A new analysis of diagrams drawn in the artist's personal notebook reveals a near-accurate model of Earth's gravitational pull.

20th Century Indian Art: Modern, Post-Independence, Contemporary surveys the many distinct aspects of art in South Asia.

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina brings awareness of both Edgefield’s awesome artistry and poet-potter David Drake’s odds-defying life to a sizable audience.

Suzanna Ivanič's new book Catholica: The Visual Culture of Catholicism is an essential primer on how Catholicism intersects with art history.

From Remedios Varo to Francisco de Goya, artists have long turned to witchcraft as subject matter.

From ancient times to the present day, join us as we pay tribute to these otter-ly charismatic creatures in various visual media.

Since antiquity, women’s eyebrows have been sites of intense scrutiny, constantly shifting between trend cycles.

"The Europeans are a simple people, but perhaps in this complex age we could learn something from their simplicity,” Rubin says mockingly as she reverses an attitude that remains embarrassingly prevalent in Western culture.

Gardening company Michigan Bulb analyzed 30 famous artworks depicting plants and the value of the painted blossoms in the high-end market.

A 2013 study which analyzed the size of handprints accompanying animal drawings found that women were more likely to have made them.

“Art is for fancy people,” my son Marc initially said. “We’re not fancy.”

The curious inscription has puzzled art historians for decades, some of whom speculated it was an act of vandalism.

The god of love and desire has fascinated and inspired artists since antiquity.

Writing a global art history demands that we give up historical thinking.

In A Countervailing Theory, her current exhibition at the Barbican Centre, Ojih Odutola’s alternative histories take on a more epic, mythic scale.

What is the relationship between Félix Fénéon’s politics and the art he admired?

Hyperallergic took works by some of our favorite artists and reimagined what they would look like during these, um, sparsely populated times.

The drawing, discovered by Dr. Sandra Toffolo, was made by Niccolò da Poggibonsi during a pilgrimage to Jerusalem from Italy in 1346-1350.

Christopher S. Wood’s A History of Art History will be eye-opening for anyone who cares about art.

Sometimes you just can't trust your eyes.

Apparently some parents think paintings by Ingres, Modigliani, and Boucher are "pornography."

Art Detective is an initiative from Art UK that involves specialists and the public in solving mysteries about the public collections paintings in the UK.

ARTé: Mecenas from Triseum is a game on the economies of art, set in the tumultuous Italian Renaissance, in which you are a Medici patron.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum is working to put the 1,275-foot "Whaling Voyage Round the World" panorama back on view.

Rather than an occult secret, alchemy is revealed in The Art of Alchemy at the Getty Center to be a prominent force in everything from medicine to color.

In her new book, Hot or Not: 20th-Century Male Artists, Jessica Campbell passes definitive judgment on sex appeal of canonical modernists.

In the 15th century, the image of the witch flying on a broomstick first appeared, its meaning laden with sexual and spiritual depravity.

"That which is the immodesty of other women has been my virtue — my willingness that the world should gaze upon my figure unadorned," Audrey Munson, the favorite nude model of the Beaux Arts movement in the United States, once proclaimed.

We spoke to Dr. Adriana Zavala, associate professor of art history and director of the Latino Studies program at Tufts University, about her research on the state of Latina/o representation in US art history departments.