The Santa Barbara Museum of Art announced the opening of two significant exhibitions, Friends and Lovers (through March 2, 2025) and Accretion: Works by Latin American Women (through April 13, 2025).

The Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has received a giant gift of artworks and will build a new wing to ...

Later on visitors will see Le Verrou (The Lock), Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s famous painting of a bedroom scene circa 1777 that portrays a virile, half-dressed young man bolting the door with one ...

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Jacques- Louis David, among others. Also included in the collection are landscapes by Hubert ...

Museums, universities and other art organisations have tapped into the enduring fascination with forgeries for pedagogic ...

The Aso O. Tavitian Wing will be constructed between the existing museum building and the Manton Research Center, replacing ...

Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative process can conjure something far darker than Vantablack. Do some ...

The museum's "#Art Cosplay Festival 2024" has combined ... The backdrop of French painter Jean-Honore Fragonard's "The Swing" is 5 meters wide, 4.3 meters tall, 3.7 meters deep and heavy on ...

The Met’s new show about what happens next, “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” makes ... reached the supposedly happy ending of Jean Cocteau’s “La Belle et la Bête,” took ...

Scott Burton, one of America’s leading sculptors, entrusted his estate to the museum in 1989, when he was sick with AIDS, to ensure his place in art history. It turned out to be a bad idea.

Copycat classicism is here. Literary re-enactments by the photographer Stan Douglas — and a wave of other remixers — are creating new types of art around Black history. By Walker Mimms Which ...

Gagosian’s Paris gallery has staged a show pairing an ancient Roman sculpture with work by Jean-Michel Basquiat. The sculpture of the goddess Venus juxtaposed with Basquiat’s 1982 painting ...