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

John Singer Sargent's most iconic portrait Madame X was the scandal of the 1884 Paris Salon. Here's the story behind the ...

Those late memoirs are works of both exposure and careful control ... How does our understanding of the line between art and exploitation shift once the writer dies and can’t make choices ...

Reading Notes to John, a new and much-discussed posthumous selection of Joan Didion’s writing, I thought over and over of ...

Image Kappa, one of Japan’s most famous yokai (supernatural beings ... sitting at the crossroads of religion, science and art. He credits the “ghost education” he received as a child ...

His most famous find is considered one of the most ... I found the greatest single object of all. Eager to work faster, I took a water hose down to the bottom and turned on the jet to blast ...

It took some time to perfect, but soon Wojnowski was translating famous works of art — like Roy Lichtenstein’s “Bang” image — into rugs. She started making other people’s designs and custom logos, ...

“When the green locomotive came into service,” he says, referring to the Ge 4/4 II locomotives repainted ... Machine Works) or German (Schweizerische Lokomotiv und Maschinenfabrik) — and Zaugg says ...