The Toledo Museum of Art is one of the nation’s best galleries. It has a superlative collection and does intelligent, topical shows. I saw its newest show, Frans Hals Portraits: A Family Reunion ...

In an interview with Apollo in 2017, four years before his death, the American artist Wayne Thiebaud claimed that ‘the art world is not much interested in humour […] to its disadvantage’.

Within this unique cultural and economic climate, and thanks to Haarlem’s dynamic art market, artists like Frans Hals enjoyed both commercial success and the freedom to experiment. Although ...

It was a celebrity gaga show about Beaton, a serious artist who deserved better. It was fun all the same. What, in retrospect, a taunting thing to have done. Days later, a confederacy of dullards ...

They are captured singing and playing, in a fleeting moment of tenderness. Now a pair of unusually intimate portraits by 17th century Dutch master Frans Hals are on public sale – if you have at least ...

The book, celebrated at a recent launch at the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto, is a collection of sonnets – traditionally a ...

The museum has more than 40 galleries that include rotating and permanent exhibits that both highlight local art and enrich community education. Artists such as Frans Hals, El Greco and Claude ...

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Frans Post to Frans Hals—a treasure trove of Old Masters, lovingly built up over decades, is heading to auction, where it is poised to shatter records. Sixty paintings from the collection of ...