A look at Japan’s love of packaging, from impeccably crafted cardboard to lacquered works of art.

As a restorer who specialized in late medieval and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, he was in intimate touch with the ...

This spring, the art world turns its gaze on London, where one of the most significant rediscoveries in recent Orientalist ...

Long unseen and known only through a 19th-century photograph, the painting Preparing Coffee reemerges with a £1–1.5M estimate ...

Five years without the City of Love’s cultural icon is a loss – but also an opportunity to discover some of quirky, under-the ...

Rutherfurd’s Moon images are beautiful, but they also marked an important leap forward for scientific imaging through their ...

An excellent way to link these sights is by bicycle; rent a CitiBike and follow the curvy, paved promenade from leafy Lummus ...

An auction house in Carlisle is preparing for a three-day sale that will showcase works by artists from the area, along with ...

Artists’ sitting rooms and studios frequently ... ‘represented the inability to create anything solid in the first half of the 19th century.’ The difficulty was less evident elsewhere, in early ...

This year marks the 400th anniversary of St Isidore's College, an Irish Franciscan landmark and Ireland's national church in ...

Nathaniel Isaacs’s life defied convention. A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century, he spent much of his career on the outer reaches of the British Empire in Africa.

A spate of historical paintings depicting unhappy brides—the opposite of wedded bliss—have been making the rounds on social ...