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

"The Surrealist Manifesto" was published a century ago. Artists like Andre Breton and Salvador Dali aimed to create a better ...

In Commonweal, Merton described the July 1947 train trip west by the pioneer monks (including Brother Boniface). He noted ...

"You feel like you can walk into it, and it makes you want to play golf. My goal is to get the viewer to say, ‘Oh, I need to ...

"Frida: Beyond the Myth" aims to paint an intimate portrait of the artist through dozens of works created by Kahlo and ...

Artists at Boston’s historic Old North Church are peeling back centuries of paint to reveal original artwork dating back to the 1700s. The careful restoration effort aims to uncover the church’s ...

Lefebvre: Cernuschi didn’t know Chinese at all, and at that time there were no translated books related ... In 1946, the Musée Cernuschi held “First Exhibition: Contemporary Chinese Painting,” which ...

For example, another one of Picasso’s Maar paintings hammered down for a record $95.2 million during a 2006 an event with Sotheby’s New York. At the time, it was the second-highest price ever ...