Unnamed women in the National Gallery's collection, and how their hairstyles, jewelry, and dress help curators date and identify each portrait.
From the French Riviera to Texas, six modern artists poured their final great efforts into a single chapel, and every one is still open to visitors.
A Paris shop named the style in 1895, and within a decade, Art Nouveau had spread from Montmartre dance halls to Kraków, Sweden, and Vienna.
A Safavid shah's Book of Kings survived four centuries intact, until an American collector cut it apart, and Iran traded a de Kooning to win back pages.
A Chilean architect trained under Le Corbusier painted the landscapes of the mind, taught automatism to New York's future stars, and was expelled by Breton.
Leonora Carrington drew horses from childhood, and scholars now read her horses, hyenas, birds, and hybrids as stand-ins for the painter herself.
From a one-time Van Eyck reunion in London to first retrospectives in Paris and Amsterdam, these fall 2026 exhibitions are worth the trip.
Painters once ground gemstones, insects, arsenic, and Egyptian mummies into their colors, and five of those pigments carry histories stranger than any canvas.
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.
Beyond the sunflowers and wheatfields, Van Gogh painted borrowed scenes and strange experiments that show how his famous style and color took shape.
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