New biography of Boston-born Alexander, who made her name in Florence with her delicate illustrations of Italian folk ballads ...

This year's festival begins on Thursday, April 3, with a screening of "Midas Man" at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst.

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

Immerse yourself in the passionate, poetic and trailblazing films of the Oscar-winning writer/director Jane Campion.

Trump has asked for Boardman's portrait of him in Colorado's State Capitol to be removed, comparing it unfavorably with a ...

A captivating show celebrating the institution’s bicentennial highlights the creativity of the borough, outlines the history ...

Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh’s work at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in Paris. He fell in ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in ...

Using archives, letters, and auction records, an art historian has uncovered who stole a Van Dyck from an English country ...

The Bank of Hindostan, General Bank of Bengal and Bengal Bank became the first banks in India to issue paper currency in the 18th Century. During this time, paper money was first issued in British Ind ...

one of the grandest of English country houses, is taking the long way home. The domed Yorkshire residence, designed by Baroque architect John Vanbrugh for the third Earl of Carlisle, was started in ...

Onfim, who scrawled his name on his entertaining sketches, doodled on more than a dozen thin pieces of birch bark in the mid-13th century ... Onfim's self-portrait includes his Cyrillic alphabet ...