The Clark Art Institute offers a free “Morning of Self-Care” series on June 17, July 22, and Aug. 19, featuring outdoor yoga, self-guided reflection and gallery talks.

Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s essay, the exhibit spotlights 25 artists who, despite great artistic and social contributions, were excluded from art history.

It’s no accident that Lowry showed in the Paris Salon during the 1930s or that art historian T.J. Clark, long considered the preeminent voice on French modernism, chose to frame Lowry’s 2014 Tate ...

Writing about art and politics is, according to TJ Clark, “hell to do”. The acclaimed art historian certainly makes reading about them hard at times. So is it worth persisting with his latest ...

Art historians love these questions about origins, for identifying the beginning of a tradition is essential for a proper narrative history. When was the first modernist painting?

The author of the essay collection Those Passions, TJ Clark, is one of the most intelligent, perceptive and, yes, passionate contemporary art critics. Born in Bristol in 1943, he is professor emeritus ...

The 81-year-old former Marxist art historian, emeritus professor at Berkeley who watched the revolution fail to happen, rages against its dying light, yet shows through rapt engagement how ...

TJ Clark takes the title of his newest work, Those Passions, from Shelley’s Ozymandias, in which artistic symbolism, political structures and the ruination of civilisations are intertwined. It’s a ...

T. J. Clark Thames & Hudson, London, 2025 Just a little over fifty years ago, I wanted to read the most challenging new art history writing. And so I ...

The fraught, complex relationship between art and politics is forensically dissected in a series of essays written over 25 years by T. J. Clark, the professor emeritus of history of art at the ...

Visual Arts by Jackie Wullschläger TJ Clark on Bruegel by TJ Clark (Thames & Hudson) The intellectual’s stocking filler: the Christmas volume from Thames & Hudson’s abundantly illustrated ...

YUGE Gift to the Clark Art Institute: Philanthropy at Its Best Left: Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun, Self-Portrait in Studio Costume, 1800, oil on panel.