According to the New York Times, the late pope often discussed art, which, for him, was a “vital reality” that he placed in contrast to the “throwaway culture” of the glob ...

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts offers the first major exhibition devoted to these canvases, featuring 14 of the works Van Gogh ...

1966: An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent, Uzbekistan. On the same day, the International Olympic Committee votes to award German city of Munich the right to host the 1972 Summer Olympic ...

Either way, one needs to examine the original embroidery still housed in Bayeux, France, to properly analyze the total penis ...

John Singer Sargent's most iconic portrait Madame X was the scandal of the 1884 Paris Salon. Here's the story behind the ...

Years ago, Vladimir Kanevsky’s floral sculptures started turning up in Manhattan’s most elegant living rooms. Now his work is ...

The Cree artist prompts museums and audiences to confront colonial legacies they’d rather forget.

The Dutch "old mistress" was renowned in her own lifetime. But since her death 275 years ago, her legacy has been largely ...

Pope Francis' image seemed to be everywhere Friday as the world mournedhis death in Rome at the age of 88. Artists created ...

Conservators at The Mauritshuis gallery say famous paintings may have been made by the Dutch Old Master’s students or studio ...

The Mauritius museum in The Hague said three paintings in its collection that were attributed to Rembrandt were, in fact, ...

The death of a pope triggers a centuries-old ritual to elect a new one, involving sacred oaths, the piercing of ballots with ...