Suffolk University Art History Program

Turns out Albrecht Dürer invented the selfie

Seeing Our Own Reflection in the Birth of the Self-Portrait Now it seems self-evident that pictures can represent who you “really” are. That conviction began with Albrecht Dürer, five centuries ago.

Sad news. We'll be talking about Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Contemporary next semester. The phrase is over-used, but they really did take public art to another level

Christo, Artist Who Wrapped and Festooned on an Epic Scale, Dies at 84 Mountains, museums, bridges and Central Park were just some of what he used to make astonishing and popular art with his wife and collaborator, Jeanne-Claude.

A nice walkthrough of Eakins's aptly-named Gross Clinic, which was rejected from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876 for its realism.

Taking Lessons From a Bloody Masterpiece I’ve become obsessed with Thomas Eakins’s “The Gross Clinic.” Let me show you why.