Painting
Madrid’s Prado Museum Will Spotlight Pioneering Duo of Female Renaissance Artists
Lavinia Fontana is widely considered the first professional female artist, while Sofonisba Anguissola served as Philip II of Spain’s court painter
'Baroque's Leading Lady' Artist Michaelina Wautier Finally Gets Retrospective
The 17th-century painter mastered an array of genres at a time when most female artists were consigned to painting flowers
Swiss Institute Reimagines Duchamp’s Readymades for the Modern World
The exhibition asks visitors to revisit the objects in their daily life that are often taken for granted
Did This Couple Steal a $160 Million de Kooning?
The Thanksgiving snapshot places Jerry and Rita Alter in Tucson, Arizona, just a day before the 1985 heist
Historian Asserts That Leonardo’s Assistant Painted Majority of 'Salvator Mundi'
The Oxford research fellow names Bernardino Luini as main artist, believes da Vinci only painted between five to 20 percent of the painting
Have Researchers Unraveled the Six-Decade Mystery of a Kansas Museum Portrait?
The team believes it has identified the rightful artist behind ‘Mrs. Thomas Pelham,’ a nearly life-size portrait depicting an 18th-century aristocrat
Where to See the Best Mural Festivals Around the World
Every year, cities across the globe bring in artists to transform buildings
Why Gala Dalí—Muse, Model and Artist—Was More Than Just Salvador’s Wife
Barcelona exhibition draws on 315 artifacts to unravel the myths behind central surrealist figure
Art Dealer Discovers Six Alleged Willem de Kooning Paintings in New Jersey Storage Locker
Boxes labeled with artist's name were found among the 200 abandoned works
Rare Landscape Attributed to Lucian Freud Discovered Underneath Another Work
Freud's friend, the little-known artist Tom Wright appears to have recycled a canvas that was left unfinished by the famed portraitist
Is This Painted Tile Da Vinci’s Earliest Known Work?
Two Italian scholars believe the tile was painted by the Renaissance master in 1471, but other experts are not convinced
Why Artists Have so Much Trouble Painting Lightning
A new study compares painted versus photographed depictions of lightning bolts' offshooting branches
How Newton, Goethe, an Ornithologist and a Board Game Designer Helped Us Understand Color
A new exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum explores the kaleidoscope of figures who shaped color theory
X-Rays Show That Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Will One Day Wilt
A new analysis shows that half of the canvas held in Amsterdam is painted with pigments that darken with exposure to UV light
Man Attacks Ivan the Terrible Painting, Blames Vodka
The painting has been a focal point of recent debate around the notorious tsar’s image
See Georgia O’Keeffe’s Little-Known Hawaii Paintings Blossom Next to Real Plants
The show at the New York Botanical Gardens features 300 Hawaiian plant types
A Dutch Art Dealer Says He Discovered a New Rembrandt
The claim is supported by 15 leading experts
What Happens When Art History Gets Refigured
A museum in Seattle shows the incredible power of subverting the traditional course of representation
Future of Art
A new generation of artists is merging innovation with tradition to tell the important stories of our time
Never Realized 17th-Century Fresco Will Be Digitally Recreated at French Château
The masterpiece was originally planned by the great French painter Charles Le Brun
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