Not long after, he left his job at the august magazine and accepted a position as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he would spend the next ten years in quiet observation and ...

European monarchs and religious entities had a penchant for erecting massively elaborate and intricately beautiful monuments ...

Drew was particularly inspired by the Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin, who saw creation as imbued with the Spirit. ...

A dozen dogs will participate in Mutts Gone Nuts which consists of dancing, flipping, skipping and more. Visit the auditorium's website for more information or to buy tickets.

As with all famous art heists, conflicting accounts of how the man managed to pull the crime off have emerged over the years, from suggestions he hid in a storage closet before the theft to ...

Antoni Gaudí, architect of the Sagrada Família, is one step closer to becoming a saint after the Vatican recognized him for ...

As a European Renaissance art historian, I study the evolving image ... the line between the holy face and his own image in a famous self-portrait of 1500. In this, he posed frontally like an ...

Some speculated that the reasons were that he was in bad health or having issues with customs because of his art collection. However, we know that Morgan, the cofounder of General Electric ...

Private Collection The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles described a day trip to Giverny in summer 1905, to visit the home of artist Claude Monet. The painter wore “a suit made of some tweedy ...

April 14, 2025 • Did you know there's an insect that can fling its pee 40 times faster than a cheetah accelerates? We did — thanks to a comic from the Bhamla Lab at the Georgia Institute of ...

Bonheur was working on the painting at the time of her death in 1899. The richest and most famous female artist of ... Queen Isabella of Spain came to visit. Eugène Delacroix, France’s leading ...

The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery combine to comprise the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art. Opened in 1923, the Freer Gallery showcases American paintings from the ...