Many very strange symbols appear in Albrecht Dürer’s famous engraving Melencolia I. Among them is a magic constant 34, a well-known and enigmatic example.

The enamel and engraving demonstrate the very different styles of European and Ethiopian Christian art. It is uncertain when the engraving was made and joined with the Dürer enamel, but this was ...

Located in a gorgeous 1930s art deco building that was once the city's main post office, the Frist Art Museum offers an ever-changing set of exhibitions, covering everything from paintings to ...

Edward Boccia was an influential American Expressionist in his lifetime. Now, a New York exhibition sheds light on his ...

In this he was a lot like the painter Francis Bacon, who died in 1992, the year that Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” ...

London Art Fair’s Museum partner for the 2024 edition ... a place to wrestle with the complexities of relations with ‘other’…Durer’s intense studies of nature led him to believe that ...

Laurent Binet’s Renaissance epistolary novel blends the postmodern playfulness of Umberto Eco with the vigour of Dashiell ...

While this winter’s premier auctions for Old Master works at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York yielded better results year ...

The painter, like the filmmaker, created images that resonated with a specifically modern sense of horror. Some images recur. They’re spectral. They come out of the darkness — out of somewhere ...

Perched on a hilltop in the heart of Malta, the ancient walled city of Mdina offers a breathtaking glimpse into the island ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art devotes an enthralling exhibition to the German Romantic painter, who rendered the natural ...