In the Chardin painting, the young bubble-blower is bent over the low wall, and a younger child is watching him. But Léon is standing up and more vulnerably alone — and his face rather than his ...

Did Shakespeare get it wrong? Is life's basic question "to smile or not to smile," rather than "to be or not to be"?

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Current group exhibitions In their last group exhibition, Chardin’s works were ...

Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative process can conjure something far darker than Vantablack. Do some ...

Preview the Jameel Prize exhibition, coming to London's V&A, with a focus on moving image and digital media The winner of the V&A and Art Jameel’s seventh international award for contemporary art and ...

The artist’s works are the subject of two New York shows, at the Metropolitan Museum and the Jack Shainman Gallery. By Arthur Lubow A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one ...

Is Nabokov’s novel morally offensive? Patently, it is not. We live in a universe of treacherous choices, of corruption and ...

Now, and only now, you may pick up your brush. The Met’s new show about what happens next, “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” makes clear how astonishing it is that paint, of all ...

Early in his art career, Devon Rodriguez used to visit gallery openings in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood and imagine that one day his own work might hang on the walls. But the dream felt out ...

Much ink has been spilled over this presidential election—but not nearly as much as was used in a long history of presidential memoirs and biographies.

Sabrina Carpenter has been nominated for Best New Artist at the 2025 Grammys — even though she just dropped her sixth album. But how can the "Espresso" singer be eligible to win an award for her ...