On “Poetry in Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelite Art of Marie Spartali Stillman” at the Watts Gallery, Surrey. It must have been fun to be a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but what about the ...

Editor’s Note: Untold Art History investigates lesser-known stories in art, spotlighting unsung and pioneering artists you should know, as well as revealing new insights into influential artworks.

My mother made me a journalist. And a musician, an artist, a poet and a playwright. I realized this recently while taking in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. —“The ...

On view in ‘The Arch of My Eye’s Orbit’ at BAM: Slavs and Tatars, “Love Letters No. 9” (2014), woolen yarn, 250 × 250 cm (courtesy the artists and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York) This week, learn ...

THE PRE-RAPHAELITE TRAGEDY — William Gaunt—Harcourt, Brace ($3). When Britain trembled over one of its periodic French invasion scares in 1859, the home guards were somewhat puzzled by the enlistment ...

Striking in her beauty but self-effacing in her tone, Pre-Raphaelite artist Marie Spartali Stillman is a virtual unknown to American audiences. Yet the Delaware Art Museum took a gamble this month ...

LONDON — In 2019, museums ostensibly wrote women back into art history. In London we saw Dora Maar (Tate Britain), Lee Krasner (Barbican), and Dorothea Tanning (Tate Modern) all step out from behind ...