Art Histories of The World

Singapore: The History of its Art
To understand the trajectory of Singaporean art, it is necessary to begin not with the modern city-state, but with the littoral…
Wellington: The History of its Art
Wellington’s art history did not begin with paint on canvas or bronze on plinth. It began with the shaping of surfaces—wood,…
Padua: The History of its Art
Padua is not often the first name invoked in the popular imagination of Italian art. It lacks the touristic magnetism of…
Adelaide: The History of its Art
The foundation of Adelaide was not merely a political or geographic act—it was a conceptual and aesthetic one. More than any…
Prague: The History of its Art
A city’s aesthetic often reveals itself not in grand pronouncements but in the grain of its streets, the habits of its…
New Mexico: The History of its Art
The art history of New Mexico is not merely a story of regional aesthetics but a dense record of habitation, rupture,…
The Alps: The History of its Art
Stretching across eight countries and forming the backbone of central Europe, the Alps are more than a geographic feature—they are a…
Portugal: The History of its Art
The story of Portuguese art begins long before there was a Portugal to name it—etched into megaliths, patterned into mosaics, and…
Greece: The History of its Art
The earliest visual languages of Greece emerged not from a unified state or cohesive tradition, but from the fragmented, sea-linked cultures…
Mumbai: The History of its Art
The modern city of Mumbai began as a cluster of swampy islands in the Arabian Sea, but it was ambition—imperial, mercantile,…
Granada: The History of its Art
Granada’s artistic prehistory is a murmur beneath the monumental—subtle, scattered, and largely silent. Yet beneath the grandeur of the Alhambra and…
The Art History of Athens
The story of Athens is a story of art, inscribed across millennia in marble, clay, pigment, and bronze. Few cities in…