Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England,” makes the 18th century artist’s prison drawings and vivid illustrations seem modern ...

Two groundbreaking exhibitions in Chicago explore the shift in portrayals of same-sex attraction. They are being staged at a ...

The American Revolution Museum at Yorktown will display this circa-1790 portrait of George Washington by American artist Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822), who portrays the general as the victor of the ...

When the Bayeux Tapestry comes to London next year, the British Museum will no doubt be showing it in near-darkness, a light level appropriate for the 900-year-old embroidery. The Victoria and Albert ...

The model of a first-rate museum director was the late Andrew Sayers, who was head of Australian works on paper and then ...

John Singer Sargent is a minor character in the third season of HBO's "The Gilded Age"—but he was the major high society ...

Jenny Saville’s peers shunned painting in favour of alternative media such as photography, video and installations, the artist stuck to her guns and, unapologetically, worked on canvases as large as ...

Every summer, changes take place at Louvre Abu Dhabi without fanfare. There are no big banners or special announcements, yet the permanent galleries undergo a subtle shift. New loans and acquisitions ...

Moira Cameron has been awarded first prize in the 2025 Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Portrait Award for her contemplative and boldly executed self-portrait, A Life Lived. The large-scale canvas, a ...

You’re going to hate it,” a friend in Warsaw told me last November, as I headed out one afternoon for the soft opening of the ...