The State Department greenlit a proposal to launch American artist Robert Lazzarini to the "Olympics of the art world." After negotiations collapsed, the country's involvement is uncertain.

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The exhibition at the Paris museum brings together around a hundred works, paintings and drawings, including some on loan ...

There's perhaps no more stirring an example of political art than Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863).

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Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French ...

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

From a Gerhard Richter retrospective to rediscovered master Michaelina Wauliter, here are the eight must-see shows across the ...

"Le Désespéré (The Desperate Man)" by Gustave Courbet returns to Paris this month. Let's unpack the mysteries surrounding ...

Woolworth, realized in 1920 by architect John Russell Pope in the Egyptian Revival style. Think: hieroglyphic-lined pillars ...

New research finds evidence of two previously undocumented infections that likely plagued the French emperor's Grande Armée ...