Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

For a few decades in the 19th century, Italianate was one of the fastest developing and most popular architectural styles in the United States. Pam Spaulding As the name suggests, the Italianate ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. In the late 1960s, Ben Bradlee, the storied executive editor of The Washington Post from 1965 until 1991, confronted making the paper more ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. For the past two weeks, cities across Nigeria were hit by protests against the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a police unit setup in ...

Nearly a century after Le Corbusier proposed his now-famous five points of architecture, I proposed five points toward the decolonization of architecture as part of the exhibition Cairo Modern. These ...

Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier, rounder ...

From Brunelleschi’s ingenious design of the dome crowning the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, to the vast ceiling of the Sistine Chapel decorated with Michelangelo’s staggering frescoes, ...

The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2020, edited by Lori A. Brown and Karen Burns is a sweeping two volume survey of over 1,000 entries covering architects, designers, ...