Dutch prosecutors believe that a priceless golden helmet and other Romanian artifacts stolen from a small museum earlier this ...

If you’ve ever wanted to step into a real-life painting, minus the museum hush and security guards, the tulip fields in the ...

You can see Fabritius’ hallmarks in Vermeer’s work: the crumbling plaster, the light and shadow, the startling compositions, ...

From the Red Light District and its window hawkers to its proclivity for ‘coffee shops’ that are not coffee shops at all, the city is often portrayed as a beacon for salivating tourists and stag ...

Margriet and her family weren't the only European royals who found refuge in Canada in the 1940s. "There have never been so many members of European royal houses in Canada at the same time as there ...

TEFAF New York opens next week, expect Gagosian and its superstar artist Anna Weyant to deliver a gem of a booth.

A small gilt-framed portrait by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerard Dou (1613-1675) and a Chinese Northern Song d ...

Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting reinserts Vermeer into the tradition in which he worked, both demystifying his paintings and lending force to his particular take on the genre.

Today’s Masterpiece Story is about this lovely genre painting by Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693), a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in small-scale domestic scenes and portraits.

Contrary to many people’s assumptions, the lifting of Prohibition in 1933 did not, by itself, usher in a golden age of drinking in America. The habit had to be cultivated. How and why that happened is ...

Ayan is so good at the art of mastering, he’s won a Grammy and seven Latin Grammy Awards. Songs that he’s mastered have over 106 billion streams. Ayan’s list of credits is staggering.