Unnamed women in the National Gallery's collection, and how their hairstyles, jewelry, and dress help curators date and identify each portrait.
With its paintings hidden in a Welsh slate mine, the National Gallery stood empty, until one letter to The Times brought a single Titian back to London.
Vienna's opera house has a legal requirement for a fire curtain, until museum in progress turned it into contemporary art's most unlikely stage.
Papou's paintings at NSU Art Museum build a coded visual language from alligators, seagulls, cartons, and Greek myth into mystical, embodied art.
From a $27 million Michelangelo sketch to a $1.1 billion single night, the major auction houses have spent 2026 breaking the records they just set.
The cloistered nun who taught herself art from postcards then became television's most beloved art critic and gave away every dollar she earned.
From Columbus to St. Moritz, Paris to Houston, here's a look at ten of the most celebrated private art collections in history and the collectors who built them.
Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon continues to inspire artists who challenge, expand, and transform its legacy in their own, more modern recreations.
Discover how Jan van Eyck transformed oil painting into a revolutionary tool for realism, illusion, and observation during the Northern Renaissance.
Monumental prints reshape the secondary art market as collectors seek works that merge fine art, luxury interiors, and contemporary lifestyle culture.
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