Why is Donald Trump doing what he is doing?” This is the question raised by European intelligentsia these days as they try to recover from the shock of the American presidential election which they ...

We all have fixations, but everyone knows someone whose super-sized preoccupation leaves you thinking, “That is way too ...

Grand portraiture is a minefield for some noteworthy hair. Portraitists such as Thomas Gainsborough and Anthony Van Dyck paid ...

The COVID-19 pandemic showed in real time, and with the highest of stakes, how hard it can be to decide if something is true. Was the virus transmitted via surfaces or airborne particles? Which drugs ...

Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...

As HBO’s TV reboot approaches, a new piece of Harry Potter fan art imagines what John Lithgow will look like as Hogwarts ...

After accepting public nominations, the Massachusetts Senate plans to commission the State House's first busts of women.

A collection of John Gilbey Bowles artworks that had been hidden away in a North Yorkshire farm stable was auctioned on ...

The French capital’s recent art history is the subject of two monumental surveys—one at the Centre Pompidou, the other at the Singaporean National Gallery of Art—that respectively focus on Black and ...

Did genre painting exist in the early twentieth century? This question forms the premise of John Fagg’s Re-envisioning the Everyday: American Genre Scenes, 1905–1945. Just four months after publicly ...

By Melena Ryzik An exhibition at the Louvre-Lens in France examines centuries of interplay between art and fashion, including what the sartorial choices of artists revealed about their place in ...