Traveling from Düsseldorf to Tel Aviv, the man carried a canvas by surrealist master Yves Tanguy in a flat cardboard box. When he reached his final destination, he realized to his horror that he did…
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Though the popularity of chess has seen a major uptick lately, the strategic game is no passing fad.
A leading expert on the works of Leonardo da Vinci thinks she has found a new drawing by the Renaissance master.
One of the world's best-known and least-seen collections of marble statuary is making its twenty-first-century debut.
German police have arrested three men in connection with the daring theft of more than a billion dollars in diamonds last year.
As the owner of contemporary art by luminaries such as Cy Twombly, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol, Baltimore-based writer and filmmaker John Waters might have considered offering his collection to a…
The great American artist Wayne Thiebaud turns 100 on Sunday, and he seems unfazed.
The Column of Trajan, attributed to the architect Apollodorus of Damascus, was completed in 113 A.D. and stands at 126 feet tall. Here is the history of this iconic Roman monument…
Clara, former Young Producer and current Educator at the Gallery, discusses van Kessel's detailed insect paintings.
Patrick Shearn and Poetic Kinetics's latest project, A Change in the Air, is set to bring messages of hope to Washington, D.C.
Chris Riopelle, the Neil Westreich Curator of Post 1800 Paintings, discusses the depiction of alcohol in paintings.
In New York City's Central Park, a monument has been unveiled honoring women's suffrage pioneers Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
A visitor to the Met's current exhibition, Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle, suspected that she recognized the works on display.
Even if you can't exchange gifts in person this year, we think these 12 gifts would lighten the spirits of any art lover in your life!
A valuable Gustav Klimt painting that was missing for twenty-three years is at last set to go on back on view at its home museum.
