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A Multi-Faceted Delacroix at the Met

Painting brilliantly colored works with emotive physicality, Eugène Delacroix was a defining artist of French Romanticism. His first comprehensive retrospective in North America, the Metropolitan…

Astonishing Works By Lost Pre-Raphaelite Master At Sotheby's

The upcoming sale of Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art…

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Features

Installation view of Manet/Degas

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manet and Degas Go Head to Head

Annie Leibovitz, Amy Sherald, Columbus, GA, 2022. Photo courtesy of the artist ©Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz's New Exhibition Boldly Re-Examines the Artist's Practice

Agnieszka Kurant, Post-fordite 3, 2019.

These 14 Pioneering Women Collectors Are Re-Shaping the Art World

Jim Schlett

National Parks Have Inspired Artists for Over a Century

The Custer Fight by C.M. Russell, 1903.

The Joy of Painting, television’s gateway to learning for the self-taught artist

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Design

Worker Restoring Frick Gallery Ceiling

Restoring The Frick Collection’s Historic Fifth Avenue Home

Russian Attack Damages Historic Cathedral in Odesa

The Smiley Face's History: Exploring a Joyful Symbol

Contemporary Art

Art & Object Announces Rozalia Jovanovic as Its New Editorial Director

Jess Allen: The Shadow Hunter

Three Books About Art for Your Summer Reading List

Auction

Pablo Picasso, Femme à la montre 1932, oil on canvas, 51 ¼ x 38 inches. Courtesy of Sotheby's.

Collection of Art Patron Emily Fisher Landau to Bring in $400 Million at Auction

Rare Book Sale to Bring in Over $25 Million at Sotheby's

Phillips' Game-Changing Dropshop Platform Will Directly Benefit Artists

Painting

Detail from Samuel Kerson's mural, The Underground Railroad, Vermont and the Fugitive Slave, Entering Vermont in 1855, memory of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth

Controversial Mural Can Be Covered, Court Rules

Revisiting the Lost Tarot Deck of Surrealist Leonora Carrington

10 Summer Paintings with Clear Skies

Photography

Photo by Zoe Hamill, photographer and photography technician at Stills Gallery in Edinburgh

Developing Magic: Unlocking the Secrets of Darkrooms

Female Photographers Who Shaped the Way We Look at the World

In Conversation with William Kentridge

Gallery

Exterior view, Hauser & Wirth New York, 18th Street, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth

Hauser & Wirth Launches Gallery Space for Prints and Editions

How These Artists Reimagine the Immigration Process

Truth and Fiction Collide In Luc Tuymans Show at David Zwirner

Latin American Art

Melchor Pérez Holguín, Pietà (detail), Bolivia, c. 1720.

Why the LACMA’s “Archive of the World” Catalogue Matters

Neo-Concretism: the short-lived but influential art movement

Pre-Columbian Latin America: The Chavín of Ancient Peru

Antiques

Euros bills hanging to dry on a clothes line

How Money Laundering Works In The Art World

Creature Comfort: Animal Art in the Home

The Cabinet of Curiosities & Colonialism

Ancient Art

The city of Bagan set against the rising dawn. Credit: Nicholas Kenrick, flickr.

10 Ancient Wonders to Visit This Year

A Brief Look at Sun Symbolism Through Art History

The True Story Behind the Antikythera in Indiana Jones 5

Black Artists

Nina Simone in 1965, Wikimedia Commons

Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Gains Support to Become a Historic Site

Hilton Als: The Pulitzer Winning Critic Discusses the Art of Curating

12 African American Artists You Should Know More About

Museum

Abstract Painting by Alma Thomas

Exploring New Alma Thomas Show at Smithsonian American Art Museum

10 Standout Museum Shows to See this Fall Across America

Reina Sofia Lifts Photo Ban on Picasso's Guernica

Asian Art

Leonardo da Vinci, Annunciation, c. 1472.

The Golden Ratio Revealed in 7 Masterpieces

'Beyond Bollywood' Brings Together 2000 Years of Dance in Art

Colors as Transgression in the Holi Festival

Drawing

Jordan Belson Brain Drawing, 1952 Ink on paper 7 13/16 x 7 13/16 inches (19.8 x 19.8 cm) Estate of Jordan Belson, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

The Mystical Tradition: Drawings of Memory and Mystery at the Drawing Center

Santa Claus Through History: Tracing the Evolution of a Beloved Icon

The History of Copying Art: A Learning Tool or a Cheat?

Fair

Shahzia Sikander, NOW, 2023 (Detail).

Preview Eva Respini's 'Rewriting Histories' at The Armory Show

Frieze Seoul Returns for Its Second Edition

From Avedon to Bradford: Exploring the Best of Art Basel 2023

Sculpture

Kheops pyramid

The 7 Wonders of the Ancient World Revealed

Wangechi Mutu’s Magically Intertwined World

Phyllida Barlow, Creator of "Non-Monumental" Sculpture, Dies at 78

Women Artists

Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe's Early Works Reveal Her Greatness

Why Rosa Bonheur's "Horse Fair" is a Masterpiece of Realism

Pop Art: 6 Artists Other than Andy Warhol

LGBTQ Artists

8 - self-portrait in the afternoon light, january 2019, puberty

Preview Laurence Philomene’s Masterful Monograph: "Puberty"

Eisenman’s Paintings Back in NYC Art Scene at Hauser & Wirth

6 Art World Events for Pride 2022

Indigenous Art

Benjamin West, The Battle of La Hogue, c. 1778. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

History Painting: An Art Genre or the Manipulation of Truth?

9 Indigenous Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram

What’s the Deal with Christopher Columbus Monuments?

Renaissance

This corner of a cabinet of curiosities, painted by Frans II Francken in 1636, reveals the range of connoisseurship a Baroque-era virtuoso might evince.

Remarkable Art Collecting Families That Shaped the Art World

The Mona Lisa: A Brief History of da Vinci's Famous Painting

Three New Theories on Vermeer, Da Vinci, and Van Gogh

Modern Art

Monet’s Garden in Giverny, View of the Water Lily Pond

Explore Claude Monet's Iconic Garden at Giverny

The Best Art Museum in Every U.S. State

Peggy Guggenheim: The Last Dogaressa