"The Dugout," a famed piece of American art, is a gift to the museum from the private collection of former Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner. It will neighbor “American Gothic,” already a major attraction.

Just in time for spring training, the Art Institute of Chicago has unveiled an iconic artwork that has special meaning for ...

What does it mean to paint now, in an image-saturated world where every moment can be captured in high resolution and consumed within seconds? Recent contemporary painting trends suggest a widespread ...

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has announced the acquisition of a rare painting by the Baroque artist ...

After two years of traveling, “Madame X” — the iconic 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent — has returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it’s the star of a new exhibit ,”Sargent and Paris,” ...

Talk about technology’s encroachment into the creative industries is everywhere right now. But a year-long residency in robotic painting revealed to me just how inflated and imprecise the public ...

"The Laboratory" by John Collier is an example of a "problem picture," paintings focused on characters caught in moral dilemmas that incited gossip amongst viewers. John Collier, "The Laboratory" ...

An artist is using cremation ashes in his paintings to give grieving families a personalised and unique way to remember their ...

In honor of artist Gerhard Richter's 94th birthday, the story of "Domplatz, Mailand (Cathedral Square, Milan)," the $37 million painting that hung for 15 years next to the front desk at the Park Hyatt ...

The Beacon Art Academy opened about a year ago in North Canton. Part of a national program, classes are open to students and adults.

Artificial intelligence has to date been enlisted as a bogeyman in cultural circles: Software will take the jobs of writers and translators, and AI-generated images ring the death toll for ...

Although AI-based restoration methods can indeed bring new life to damaged paintings, the end result is typically a digital copy of the original painting. By contrast, a new MIT technique applies ...