As you approach New Haven, on the right you’ll pass “Composition in Black and Brown,” a billboard by the artist Ken Gonzales-Day collaging his photographs of 18th-century marble busts from ...

When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information ...

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

We take a closer look at hermits in art, from ancient statuaries to garden gnomes reimagined by Paul McCarthy.

Thanks to new findings by Dr. Edward Town from the Yale Center for British Art, we now know that the ... employed by the royal household in the 18th century. In the Tudor period, John Blanke ...

Attention can also be a state more than a deliberate action, a “relaxed distribution of focus,” as Claire Bishop, a professor ...

This stunning Parisian museum may not be as famous as the Louvre, but it's brimming with history. Visit for an authentic ...

Painter Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany for Britain as a child and became one of the major artists of the 20th century, ...

From its origins in gambling, to a canvas for artists and political expression, tarot went through one last transformation in the 18th century before its revival as a spiritual tool in the 1970s.

Camille Davis is writing a book called Visual Prestige: The Role of Portraits in Shaping the Nascent Identity of American ...

Paintings, ceramics, photography, fashion, furniture and more: The V&A Museum is a treasure trove of art and design. Here’s ...

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia ...