Tim Brinkhof

Tim Brinkhof

Tim Brinkhof

Tim Brinkhof is a Dutch-born, New York-based journalist reporting on art, history, and literature. He studied early Netherlandish painting and Slavic literature at New York University, worked as an editorial assistant for Film Comment magazine, and has written for Esquire, Film & History, History Today, and History News Network. 

Beit guvrin
Instead of worshipping Yahweh, the devotees were perhaps dedicated to Mars and Jupiter.
Bialiatski
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony sends yet another strong message to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Annie Ernaux
Many were expecting extremism survivor and free speech advocate Salman Rushdie to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature, but Annie Ernaux beat him to it.
Japan just opened to tourists for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, echoing the island country’s isolationist policies during the feudal era.
Salvator Mundi detail
"Salvator Mundi" sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
Modern art Suprematism
Modernism has lasted longer than any art movement since the Renaissance.
Sigmund Freud statue
Sigmund Freud developed the decidedly unscientific principles of psychoanalysis in a time when most psychologists were trying to join the ranks of chemists and medical doctors.