A weekly-style art appreciation newsletter that uses famous paintings, sculptures, and art history anecdotes to teach readers how to look slowly and closely at artworks. Issues are partly teasers for reader-funded subscriber articles, with no ads.
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A newsletter exploring connected histories of South Asian art and architecture, from ancient Indian sites to Mughal-era tombs and cross-cultural encounters between India and the wider ancient world. Written by a historian, it offers long-form, richly illustrated essays for readers interested in history.
Studying History is a personal newsletter that tells engaging stories from history, art, science and classical culture, with a Greek-language version alongside the English text. Recent issues cover the origins of modern art, the Nobel-winning discovery of channelrhodopsins, and the ancient Greek idea of xenia.
Brown History is a weekly newsletter that revisits South Asian and broader non-Western history, from Indo-Greek kingdoms and colonial-era art to modern social issues. Readers get long-form essays, visual history pieces, and recommended reads aimed at reframing the past from non-colonial perspectives.
A newsletter by art historian Katy Hessel celebrating women artists, with guides to art fairs and exhibitions and short profiles of artists from different countries. Readers get curated lists of what to see in major art weeks alongside historical context on overlooked figures.
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