This is the power of art in the street. On the street, a work is no longer is a private relationship between the artist, work ...

The British Museum’s Inspired by the East asks its audience to rehabilitate Orientalist art without ever focusing on what made it problematic in the first place.

Meera Nanda is a science historian, writer and academic who has written extensively on postcolonialism and postmodernism in ...

Sotheby’s sale of 19th Century European Paintings in London today (which included works by Spanish, Orientalist, German, Austrian and Central European ...

Mushrooms in 19th-century watercolors: The paintings of a self-taught female mycologist are featured at the New York State Museum. An 1870 watercolor of Agaricus rubescens Fr., by Mary Elizabeth ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt and the Sorbonne will fund a new program to digitize Delacroix’s papers and identify other artists who ...

Titled "Study of Reclining Lions," the previously unknown work by the renowned French Romantic painter has been owned by a ...

The panel, which investigates claims for Nazi-looted art in UK public collections, deemed the painting "looted as an act of racial persecution." Hartveld, a Belgian art collector, left the ...

As a member of the American Female Moral Reform Society (AFMRS), a group dedicated to preventing prostitution in cities in the early and mid-19th century, Prior was uniquely equipped to help women ...

The return of the 1654 oil painting will mark the latest triumph for a special panel set up by the UK government to investigate such works that have ended up in Britain’s public collections. More from ...

21.1 x 22.6 cm. (8.3 x 8.9 in.) ...