The self-portrait has been purchased by two prominent U.K. museums thanks to a £1.6 million ($2.16 million) grant from the ...

The idea of a female muse as a source of inspiration for the male artistic genius has had its day as their female sitters ...

In the late 1870s, banker and art collector William Corcoran commissioned larger-than-life Carrara marble sculptures of some ...

The only self-portrait by Clara Peeters may smash the 17th-century Flemish still life painter's auction record next month at ...

A new body of work by Andrew Salgado (previously) unfurls from a central premise: we are the books we read. The artist, who ...

Aguilar’s portraits captured her harmony with nature, blurring the line between human and desert. As a naturist, I’ve been drawn to her nude imitations of rocks, trees and wind. What knowledge do we ...

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

In her too-short career, the painter Christina Ramberg studied the many contortions that being a woman can demand.

Featuring 18,000 plants and works by three contemporary artists, a new exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden celebrates the Dutch painter's love of nature ...

Clustered around Museumplein, Amsterdam’s big three institutions are in easy reach of each other. Each is magnificent in its ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) When I read and study Walt Whitman’s poetry, I often imagine what ...

News from Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times that William Dobson's earliest Self Portrait has been jointly acquired by ...