Until the present century, it was often a rather risky business for an American artist to do a nude. When the painter John Vanderlyn exhibited an inoffensive Ariadne in New York in 1815, his ...

Her first major US retrospective shines a new light on the Polish artist and her erotic, opulent portraits which helped ...

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“We see reproductions of famous paintings everywhere, particularly Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring. This study has shown once and for all that a visit to the Mauritshuis or another museum ...

By Will Heinrich The central role of printmaking in five centuries of Mexican art on view at the Met shows the weight of many minds. By Will Heinrich and Patricia Escárcega The artist Barbara ...

Karen Knight Hogan describes herself as an “amateur artist” who loves to paint. Before she retired, Hogan was a certified ophthalmic technician for 20 years. One fateful night in July ...

Ghostface Killah is arguably hip-hop's greatest surrealist. We spoke to the Wu-Tang legend about learning songwriting lessons ...

Paint prep is a necessary but sometimes tedious step. Properly prepping a surface for painting can ensure a smooth finished project. On a piece of furniture with only a few isolated peeling ...

A painting discovered by a junk dealer in the basement of an Italian villa six decades ago is actually the work of Pablo Picasso and could sell for millions, according to experts. Luigi Lo Rosso ...