A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 ...

The panel features monsters with African, Indigenous Caribbean and intersex features, encouraging viewers to connect the sins and punishments depicted to those considered “other” Surekha Davies - ...

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, “The Vicomtesse de Vaudreuil” (1785) Oil on panel; 83.2 x 64.8 cm (32 3/4 x 25 1/2 in.) Johannes Vermeer had a serious thing for books. As it turns out, so did Edward ...

A long-lost painting of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ by Peter Paul Rubens, the 17th-century Flemish master, has been discovered in a mansion in Paris. French auctioneer Jean-Pierre Osenat was ...

PARIS — A vividly hued Picasso portrait of longtime muse and partner Dora Maar that had remained hidden from public view for more than eight decades sold Friday at auction for 32 million euros (about ...

An Argentine federal court announced Wednesday that authorities had recovered the long-lost "Portrait of a Lady," an 18th-century work by the Italian painter Giuseppe Ghislandi that was looted by the ...

Score-keeping fosters creativity in games, but in real-life institutions it makes for rigid policies and distorts values, according to this trenchant philosophical Continue reading » World Enemy No. 1 ...

AAPG copy Purchased from the Arts Libraries Endowment. Contents Finding Common Ground / Laurie Norton Moffatt -- Norman Rockwell: The People's Painter / Stéphane Grimaldi -- We Are All Neighbors / Jan ...