The lack of pensions for Revolutionary War veterans was a national shame so profound that President James Monroe included it ...

14. A 1976 exhibition featuring Peter Blake’s series of screen prints based on Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel “Alice Through the ...

The art-collecting industrialist Henry Frick tried to commission a portrait from the famed artist, to no avail.

Orangetown's historians are a bit obsessed with the man portrayed in "Seated Merchant Wearing a Falling Lace Collar." For good reason.

To celebrate the sex symbol’s legacy, Charles Saffati of Carlton Fine Arts is presenting An Ode to Marilyn, an exhibition ...

Charles Dickens despised the Victorian legal system. In “ Bleak House ,” he invented the epic, decades-spanning Jarndyce v.

Orion Gustafson, 14, drew two sketches of actor Dwayne Johnson and now the movie star is talking about hiring him for more ...

Kathleen M. Gagne is retiring as executive director of Mechanics Hall on June 30. Gagne has worked at Mechanics Hall since ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys the first 10 years of a precocious painter getting his start in Paris.

“He has a great passion for art,” says Hardman. “Probably more than any monarch since George IV.” The portrait was initially displayed at the Philip Mould Gallery in London, but it now ...

So are Oscar Wilde, Harold Pinter, William Blake, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll ... Treasures From the British Library and National Portrait Gallery, London. Announced earlier in the year, open since ...

Why, then, does Gauguin’s last self-portrait have blue eyes, a squat nose and no signature or date? According to Fabrice Fourmanoir, an art dealer and amateur art sleuth, these aesthetic ...