disguise

Bristling with meaning: the language of hair in 19th-century America

26 July 2025 9:00 am

Beards, moustaches, whiskers, free-flowing curls or cropped coifs – all were signifiers of morality, trustworthiness or political ideology

What is going on?

30 August 2014 9:00 am

Pity the poor art historian writing a survey of painters from Giotto to, say, Poussin. In order to produce a…