Rembrandt&#39;s eye for art
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A visual defect may have been partly responsible for Rembrandt&#39;s extraordinary eye. So say two Harvard researchers, and their theory is a reminder that human imperfections can be channeled into greatness and
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Big estimates don&#39;t necessarily mean big prices. That was the lesson the art world learned at Sotheby&#39;s sale of Impressionist and modern art last night.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art's show of Renaissance portraits and drawings provides a gripping art experience, visually and psychologically.
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The Art Institute of Chicago has spun a wonderful show around George Seurat's famous oil painting, which includes related sketches and works by contemporaries.
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It is instructive to imagine the D C Moore Galleryâs 10-year survey of Mark Greenwoldâs small, fraught Realist paintings in one of New Yorkâs major museums.
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DELFT, Netherlands  - An art restorer says he has  solved a centuries-old mystery with the discovery of the studio  of the 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer.
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NEW YORK The line to view New York City&#39;s reopened Museum of Modern Art wrapped around a city block, as thousands waited to file into the renovated and expanded building.
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ÂTesoros/Treasures/Tesouros,Â now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, offers a rich cultural collision for anyone interested in a big dose of worldliness.
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The Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, a winner of the Pritzker Prize for architecture, has been chosen to redesign the art displays in the State Hermitage Museum, right, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Bloomberg News reported. Mr. Koolhaas and the museum will begin the six-year project by establishing a master plan for a new way of displaying about three million treasures in the museumâs roughly 2,000 rooms. He will also alter the displays in the Islamic and Chinese rooms and transform a section of the imperial general staff building into a space for contemporary art.
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The Guggenheim Museumâs spirited if sometimes disjointed display of works from its collection offers a good argument for expansion of its New York branch.
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Leonardo Da Vinciâs masterpiece joins a large and growing population of virtual art.
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From Titian to Picasso and El Greco to Juan Gris, a new exhibition at Madrid's Prado museum is offering art fans the chance to see for themselves under one roof a cross-section of 500 years of Spanish portrait art.
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When is a bag of rubbish not a bag of rubbish? When it&#39;s an integral piece of a high-profile exhibition at one of London&#39;s most famous galleries.
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One art lover in Sweden paid 1,000 times over the starting bid for a painting billed as the work of a student of Peter Paul Rubens after learning the Flemish baroque master may have painted it himself.
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Can angry young Muslims dictate what is and is not acceptable in the traditionally open-minded world of Dutch arts? In the last few weeks, it appears, the answer has been yes.
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Art like Romare Bearden's Â intense and intricate Â deserves close scrutiny. So here's my advice: pick a few favorites at the Whitney Museum and stick with them.
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The Metropolitan Museum show of drawings, which reveals Rubens's process of thinking, is sublime.