We usually look at art in the hushed, reverential surroundings of museums and galleries — and that, argues writer and art historian Simon... We usually look at art in the hushed, reverential ...

At one point during Simon Schama’s Story of Us (BBC Two), the historian listed some of the people who made programmes for the BBC’s groundbreaking Open Door series. “Vegans, anarchists, feminists, ...

Simon Schama opens his latest book, "Foreign Bodies," with this reminder - in the end, all history is natural history. He tells how humans have contended with mass contagion and death through ...

We usually look at art in the hushed, reverential surroundings of museums and galleries — and that, argues writer and art historian Simon... Simon Schama on the Unsettling 'Power of Art' We usually ...

Schama is University Professor Art and Art History at Columbia University, a contributing editor at The Financial Times, and the author of 16 books, most recently The Story of the Jews: Belonging, and ...

We usually look at art in the hushed, reverential surroundings of museums and galleries -- and that, argues writer and art historian Simon Schama, can fool us into believing that great works of art ...