This issue of *Histoire de l'art*, number 97, is a scholarly journal dedicated to exploring hierarchies and reconfigurations of artistic value across time and cultures. It features an interview with Philippe Peltier on hierarchies in Oceanic and African arts, along with studies on Greco-Roman art, 19th-century French classification struggles, medieval artist collaborations, Iranian art from 1600 to 2000, Islamic art historiography, the chief sculptor at La Granja de San Ildefonso, administrative hierarchies in Louvre collections, French views on the Dutch Golden Age, a 1908 women's retrospective exhibition, colonial museum classifications in Vietnam, the strategies of the journal *Third Text*, and the recomposition of artistic hierarchies in 1990s China. The volume also includes chronicles on instrumented art history, a book on Jacqueline Lichtenstein, the restoration of Ghiberti's *Porte du Paradis* in Lyon, women at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Catalan artists in Paris, and online varia on public clocks and Roseline Bacou.
This issue matters because it provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of how artistic hierarchies are constructed, contested, and transformed—from ancient Greece to contemporary China. By bringing together diverse perspectives on valuation, classification, and institutional power, it offers critical tools for understanding the politics of art history and the ongoing debates about canon formation, colonial legacies, and gender equity in the visual arts.