Grand portraiture is a minefield for some noteworthy hair. Portraitists such as Thomas Gainsborough and Anthony Van Dyck paid ...

Betty Joel was one of the UK's most successful designers and furniture makers during the 1920s and 30s. As part of our Art Deco Centenary series, her great-nephew Clive Stewart-Lockhart picks his ...

A new study underscores the ubiquity of pleasant smells attached to commonly displayed objects, like sarcophagi and wrappings used in mummified remains.

Today, Band-Aid is debuting a new collection that will feature Hokusai's Great Wave and other artworks faithfully reproduced on its adhesive bandages. With guidance from Met curators, the brand chose ...

The Manhattan museum’s Gilded Age mansion reopens next month, bringing its world-famous collection of works by the likes of Vermeer and Rembrandt back on public view.

Truman Lowe, the late Black River Falls artist and UW-La Crosse alumni, will have his artwork exhibited at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. starting October ...

Some people just seem to belong in their job. Rachel Ferrante is one of them. Ferrante was hired as executive director of the Maine Museum of Innovation, Learning and Labor, or Maine MILL, in the fall ...

The all-female curatorial staff members ensure Fargo’s largest museum includes a bounty of art created by women, and moreover ...

From images of lakes and streams to ice cube trays and snow, “Images of Water” is a fun, theme-based show to take a look at.

Museums in the United States are expensive; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of ... These institutions ...

An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, was repatriated to Greece from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of ...

An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.