Avant-garde menus, star chefs, world-class views: These restaurants give the fine art in the hallowed halls that surround them a bit of healthy -- and delicious -- competition for attention.
WASHINGTON -- "This exhibition is very special," Chinese artist Xu Bing says by way of introducing his new display at Washington's Freer and Sackler G...
For those who habitually spend just a few seconds with an art work in a museum or gallery, and then devote more time than that to the adjacent wall label, the Slow Art Day experience offers an opportunity to slow down and pay attention in a way that proves genuinely rewarding.
Painter Gary Langhas enjoyed a celebrated career worthy of his keen talent. Free of the burden of conceptual angst that plagues most artists of our er...
Today, Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II's prized possessions along with those of his art-loving Habsburg relatives reside at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. After a decade-long closure, the museum's refurbished Kunstkammer reopened March 1.
Twice now, Google Art Project -- an effort by Google to photograph and share, via the Internet, many of the world's great pieces of art from many of the world's great museums -- has asked to have access to the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. And yet, both times, we have declined Google's offer.
A stunning new pop-art project aims to portray a world in which women decision-makers vastly outnumber their male counterparts. "Gender Equality? ...
Oxford is a wonderful place for a day trip from London. While the college and university buildings are the obvious draws, there is much more here to entertain intrepid visitors.
Would capping charitable deductions at a low figure (like Romney's hypothetical $25,000) be the death knell for mega-donations that are the lifeblood of cultural institutions?
On Saturday, museums across America will adopt the Smithsonian Insitution's free admission policy for 24 hours, allowing visitors to enjoy their colle...
From elaborate art heists to existential teenage crises to Russian period dramas, some of the most memorable moments in cinematic history have taken p...
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Art has the power to ignite a renaissance in America -- so why is such a broad spectrum of art, music and culture failing to reach an audience nowadays and failing to impact society in deeply meaningful ways?
It is almost as if the word "contemporary" has another meaning when it comes to the creation of art during one's lifetime. As a result, art teachers push students toward "make it different" before they have mastered any technique.
Pull up your socks and tighten your wig, New Yorkers, because the MoMA PS1 is sprucing up your summer museum visit by combining live music with contem...
All of the artwork in the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo is for sale. Most of it is rather conventional in style. The architecture, however, is spectacular.
Not many elementary schoolers can boast about having their artwork on display in one of New York's most famous art museums. But for lucky students fro...
It was a full and comfortable day at the Seattle Art Museum. I left with the pleasurable sensation of a visit to a world-class museum both in collections and environment.
The potter, innocent of all he makes, how could he know his bowl would hold the moon? - Peter Levitt In the spring of 1988 Danny Shain, a young art...
PHILADELPHIA — After years of bitter court fights, The Barnes Foundation opened its doors Wednesday for a sneak peek at its new location on the ...
HELSINKI — The Helsinki City Council has narrowly rejected a proposal to build a Guggenheim art museum in the Finnish capital. The council's bo...
That's what I love about museums -- every artwork or display is a window into another place, another time or another way of thinking.
Art has always tended to speak truth to power, to enlighten us, to challenge us, to stretch our understanding of ourselves and our place in the universe. It wasn't always so self-referential, so blasé, so up for grabs.
WARSAW, Poland — Bark beetles and old age have damaged Leonardo da Vinci's 15th-century painting "Lady with an Ermine," but the masterpiece is s...
Seeing what other humans can create with passion and intensity (and the right genetic proclivity) does make one wonder: What could I do?
