The glowing works from Siena, now at the Met, are revelatory for their emotional intensity and 24-karat beauty.

Wall St. Insights Some paintings go on private display after being sold.  Every painting on this list has sold for over $100 ...

For a recent contest, topiarists—gardeners who clip plants into elaborate sculptures—displayed their creations to the world.

Imagine finding a super-valuable painting in your attic or at a flea market. While the most expensive paintings ever sold tend to be famous pieces everyone watches, some of them were rediscovered ...

Its sale in September 2015 set a record for the most expensive painting ever sold at that time. The buyer, hedge fund billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin, made the purchase as part of a deal that also ...

Exactly 150 years ago, Monet, Degas, Renoir and their pals spurred an artistic revolution. Can we still see the defiance ...

The Met’s new exhibition on Siena—the first of its kind in America—shows how the possibilities of strange, colorful ooze ...

The actor was waiting tables when an audition for the role came up, but he had to fight his agent to put his hat in the ring: ...

One of the most famous facades in all the world has been concealing a deep secret. Underneath the iconic and intricately ...

Despite only having 18 episodes in its original 1968 run, The Herculoids was one of the most popular of Hanna-Barbera‘s ...

Birdman tells the story of Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton), an actor who rose to international fame by playing Birdman, a ...