Witticist-lyricist Lorenz Hart would cringe at the pun, but “Blue Moon” is nothing if not a funny valentine to the tortured (closeted, Jewish, alcoholic, diminutive) songwriter who died in 1943 at age ...

Mary Washington helped her son develop into the leader he became. While her son was the subject of several portrait artists, ...

Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted one portrait, high-tech imaging tools have revealed a secret — another, earlier ...

Happy couples love to watch romance movies on Valentine’s Day and with good reason. They get to see their story played out on ...

A Luxembourg museum has scooped three portraits by 18th century painter Monique Daniche, featuring the elite of Strasbourg ...

Fast forward to the digital age, and the quest to find one’s perfect color palette has found a new home on social media.

Experts analyzing the painting have several theories about why this unidentified woman has remained submerged for more than a century.

The J. Paul Getty Museum is presenting the first major exhibition of Gustave Caillebotte in the United States. Caillebotte ...

Walker’s new installation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art offers us visions from both the past and future.

Portraits of enslaved people from the 19th century were also unusual. Enslavers often viewed them as mere chattel and not ...

In Arkansas, between 1868 and 1893, at least 87 Black men were elected to and served in the Arkansas General Assembly.

A range of interpretations and depictions of the Black figure is currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (through ...