The British Museum’s Inspired by the East asks its audience to rehabilitate Orientalist art without ever focusing on what made it problematic in the first place.

A Paris show suggests orientalist fantasies of women in particular gave way to a new reality that helped usher in modernism and abstraction ...

The artworks, part of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, help shed light on a traditional ...

An early painting by the famed Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, thought lost since the 1930s, is on view for the first time ...

A painting in the Wallace Collection long-considered a Canaletto has been reattributed to Bellotto, a nephew who studied in his workshop.

In Damascus we can still find the places where St. Paul converted to Christianity in the first century. We still have first-century churches and monasteries, and we have kept Aramaic, the language ...

Changing Historiographical Methods and Contexts from the 19th Century to the Present." The Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture is named for Simon Rawidowicz (1896–1957), one of the most innovative ...

21.1 x 22.6 cm. (8.3 x 8.9 in.) ...

And then there’s this idea of sending up the whole form of discovery. In other words, the mode of representation that I use looks like 19th Century manuscript painting. It looks like the kinds of ...

upon European culture and literature from the 18th century onwards. Its title: Orientalism (now issued in this country by Routledge & Kegan Paul, £8.95, paperback £3.95). I interviewed Professor Said ...