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After a valuable de Kooning was discovered behind a bedroom door, a true crime fan wondered: Is that all the thieves stole?
A rock art panel near Aswan, Egypt, may depict a rare example of an elite individual from the First Dynasty, shedding light ...
A Good Day’s Work” repositions Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860–1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, whose beloved painted recollections of rural life earned her a distinctive ...
The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie our ability to recognize artworks as depictions of trees.
Here’s why some historians argue she was Britain’s first Black queen—and what we know for sure about her life with King George III.
It is one of the most evocative works from the American Civil War: A sculpture of a Black man who had escaped from slavery ...
The Polish village of Rozwarowo in northern Poland is saving the moors. Local thatcher Alfred Smolczynski initiated the process: He’s been renaturalizing the moor since the 1980s, in the face of ...
Medieval people would have interacted with the embroidered players, giving them voice and enabling them to join the ...
Contemporary artists are co-opting the visual tropes of romantic rural scenes and bringing them to uncanny new ends in the ...
Our critics pick 11 outstanding exhibitions — many still on view this summer —and tour the renewed Frick Collection and the Met’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.