Z. Vanessa Helder : innovative formalist realism in the Grand Coulee Dam paintings.

Racial mountains, renascent Harlem, and red clay : the Charles Henry Alston mural sketch in the Ackland Art Museum collection.

Alfons Mucha's "The Lord's Prayer" : Fin de siecle illustrations of gender and spirituality.

A tomb with a view : constructing place and identity in the funerary monuments of Hellenistic Anatolia.

A chameleonic icon : questioning the underground Christian identity of an Edoperiod Amida sculpture in the Nyoirin Kannon-do, Kawaguchi City.

A world in print : foreigners in Japan's early modern Bankoku jinbutsu-zu.

Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski : political struggle and metaphor.

The makings of an event : encountering the Battle of Kadesh through time.

Shaping religious and cultural aspiration : engraved sutras in Southwestern Shandong Province from the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577 CE), China.

Fecundity, security, eternity : dynastic roles and maternal imagination in Bronzino's chapel of Eleonora di Toledo.

Ogata Korin (1658-1716) and the possibilities of painting in early modern Japan.

Contesting categories of the 'fantastic' and 'surreal': A visual reading of Tilsa Tsuchiya's and Francisco Toledo's multidimensional and complex artistic visions.