Packed with frescoes, paintings and reliefs, the federal government's Cohen Building has been called "the Sistine Chapel of ...

In the middle of it all stands an industrial relic that’s been given a new reason for life: a cylinder letterpress, complete with a manual crank. Rows of freshly inked pages often float above the ...

Art that is sanctioned by the state without the ability to criticize the state, as Trump wants to see, is no better than ...

Szyk (1894-1951) was born in Łódź and trained as an artist in Kraków and Paris, absorbing medieval illumination, caricature ...

Erik Bulatov pictured in 2016 with a large-scale work he created for the Garage Contemporary Art Museum in Moscow Photo: © Garagemca/CC-BY-SA-4.0 Erik Bulatov, the ...

(This is the second part of a two-part article. Read the first part.) In March of 1941, while the Germans were occupying half of France, the French painter Henri Matisse underwent a grave operation in ...

Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church. Baroque art was propaganda — for the state or for the Church. It inspired the masses to believe that the authority of the prince and the ...

Confederate statues have roiled Charlottesville since at least 2016, when Charlottesville High School student Zyahna Bryant petitioned City Council to remove them, a request that culminated in 2017’s ...

Exactly 85 years ago — on Nov. 30, 1939 — the USSR’s aggression against Finland began. This “Winter War,” as it came to be known, was part of the Soviet leadership’s grand plan to divide Eastern ...

You may be familiar with the works of Thomas Hart Benton, the Neosho, Mo.-born painter and muralist who became part of the Regionalist movement in the 1930s and '40s. The son of a congressman, Benton ...