Paradox is at the heart of a new video by the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson, “Sunday Without Love,” which has its ...

The great ballerinas of the 19th century were perhaps the first modern celebrities. Rather than bare all, their images ...

Alexandre Dumas, the famed French author of swashbuckling adventures, such as The Three Musketeers (1844), The Count of Monte Cristo (1846) and The Man in the Iron Mask (1848–50), was an admirer of ...

By observing light, color and the fleeting moments, impressionists overturned artistic tradition and sparked a revolution ...

Early portraits by John Singer Sargent in Paris reveal his vibrant artistic milieu, including Monet and Rodin.

Germany is a country well-known for its many awe-inspiring castles, but this one may just deserve to be at the top of any ...

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

A veteran of the Fluxus art movement, he brought an anarchic spirit to the California acid-rock scene with his band, the ...

For the first time in the nearly 20 years since its founding, Princeton University Ballet is being led by Black women. The ...

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Rawlings’ portraits show Jane sewing, reading or contemplating her uncertain fate. In each she occupies “an interiority and ...

The quality of summer exhibitions in Australia seems to have been in a steady decline over the past few years, especially ...