The artworld is awash with nontraditional art. Refreshingly, independent art scholar and critic Michelle Marder Kamhi offers us ...

If beauty were a gun it would be a Boss & Co.  London gun-maker Boss & Co. is ...

There's nothing quite like being up in the clouds. In June or July, California-based artist David Jenks often ...

As a new dawn breaks in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, we walk, almost enveloped in ...

On July 13, nearly 100 contemporary representational paintings from around the world will be exhibited in the “14th ...

A young German couple have finally been reunited, after spending generations apart.  Ariane van Suchtelen, curator at the ...

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to ...

Ask any writer. Often the most poignant of insights come right after an interview ends, when the notebook ...

Renowned American pewterers Danforth Pewter have been making metalware by hand for generations. Apart from a hundred-year break ...

An adorable lapdog looks out of a picture frame, as if we’ve interrupted him nibbling on some rather ...

In Raphael’s lifetime, early 16th-century artists and art aficionados could encounter Raphael’s art via prints. For those who ...

“I have neglected nothing,” said Nicolas Poussin, the 17th-century French classical painter. Everything in Poussin’s paintings is there ...

St. Christopher stares directly at me, and in a heartbeat I feel what he feels—even my mouth mirrors ...

For nearly 150 years, the production process at John Boyd Textiles Ltd. has barely changed. From its factory ...

In 18th- and 19th-century England, wealthy young men traveled to continental Europe to explore ancient sites, discover ancient ...

In 1885, Czar Alexander III gave his wife, Empress Maria Feodorovna, a most extraordinary Easter gift: a white ...

Fifteenth-century Flemish painter Jan van Eyck’s art is simply astounding. Somehow van Eyck managed to paint so true ...

Forces beyond your control can take away everything that you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose ...

Beauty, goodness, and righteousness—the glory of God and our true human nature—can all be found in Raphael’s art. ...

Cast in silver, Medusa screams out on the pistol butt of a beautiful, 19th-century, walnut and rosewood flintlock ...

"No two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree ...

Between 1933 and 1945, Jewish art collectors in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe were systematically forced into exile, deported, ...

In universal judgment, nothing more beautiful has ever been seen in the world. ut fuit universale juditium, sunt ...

Artist Heide Presse paints mid-19th-century American life as authentically as she can. Farmers, homesteaders, and pioneers are a ...

One of the most important paintings of the Northern Renaissance hasn’t been quite itself for hundreds of years. ...

“It was in the night, that the Gods sang the world into existence. From the world of light, ...

In the 1890s, Japanese artist Taki Katei (1830–1901) was at the height of his career, honored with professional ...