To class-obsessed British traditionalists at the turn of 1800, the painting was a spectacular metaphor for the shining evil ...

The walls of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s parlor were filled with mirrors of all sizes; the dining room decorated with black ...

A haunting tour of the visual works from the Wellcome Collection exploring Halloween’s imagery through art, history, and ...

The agreement conferring ownership of two ceramic vessels by David Drake sets “a new standard for ethical restitution.” The ...

An 18th-century wax model became both a medical teaching tool and a haunting symbol of beauty, science, and control ...

The Art Basel & UBS Survey of Global Collecting 2025 reads like a snapshot of an art world at a hinge moment—between ...

Francis Bacon and David Hockney drove results at Sotheby’s, as the three major houses collectively posted a 22 percent ...

The story of Dolores Chiappone’s turbulent life, who turned suffering into art through self-made magic ...

Once, when I was 12 or 13, I was looking at Fernand Léger’s 1925 painting Composition in the European wing of LACMA’s since-demolished Ahmanson Building when I noticed a small termite crawling across ...

Thousands of years of artistic expression can be found under one roof at Frieze Masters, in a calmer, more manicured environment than the bigger, more contemporary Frieze London.

Few artists have reshaped our perspective on the world like Georgia O’Keeffe. Over the course of seven decades, she reinvented painting– magnifying a flower until it became a landscape.

A rare painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, depicting his son Jean as a child—the future director of *La Grande Illusion* and *La Règle du jeu *—will be auctioned on November 25, 2025, at the Hôtel ...