Museums are great places to escape to. That’s obvious. An antidote to the daily grind, to highways and traffic jams and to current affairs, they have air conditioning, clean bathrooms, cafes. You ...

Joe Miller Hello readers, and welcome to the inaugural edition of Reason and Romanticism. You may have noticed that Library Lines hasn’t been around the last few weeks. Hallie Herold is now sole ...

In June, our art critic toured seven art museums from Detroit to Kansas City. National turmoil crept into the frame.

In the early 19th century, Frédéric Chopin, George Sand, Ary Scheffer, and Eugène Delacroix lived in close proximity in the Parisian district of Nouvelle Athènes (New Athens). More than neighbours, ...

He wears an earring, his clothes seem to owe more to the 1980s New Romantic movement than 19th-Century costume, and from his affairs with women to his lack of deference to his so-called superiors ...

Foraging for the future: If much of his imagery feels rooted in the early 19th century Romantic era in which Victor Hugo grew up, the treatment often looks forward to late 19th century symbolism ...

“Moonrise Over the Sea” by Caspar David Friedrich, a 19th-century German romantic. (Jörg P. Anders/bpk Bildagentur/National Gallery, Berlin State Museums/Art Resource) Review by Sebastian ...

Romantic Nationalism is often, if not always, manifested by ultra-nationalist ideologies. The most prominent of these first emerged in Europe in the late-19th century and in the first half of the ...

There are 19th-century roots, too, to these A.I. ghost stories, and in “The Sandman,” Hoffmann identified the source with precision.

As Melinda McCurdy, The Huntington's curator of British art and co-curator of the exhibition tells the BBC: "We're not saying that climate change was recognised as such in the 19th Century," But ...