His American art collection now resides at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, which opened as the Freer Gallery ...

Between 1821 and 1835, the San people of South Africa painted an exhilarating battle scene on a sandstone cliff called the ...

Painting a lighter color over a darker one, for example, will require more coats to completely cover up the old paint. If you’re refreshing your white paint with a wash of the same color ...

AN OLD painting by Neapolitan artist Francesco di Rosa of St Catherine of Alexandria will be put on display before being auctioned off. The painting, from the early 1600s, is to be displayed in ...

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Wrapping the sandpaper around a block makes life easier. Any old scrap of 2×4 or something similar will work. Before you paint, make sure there’s none of that dust left on the piece to ...

“If the cabinets you are painting have previously been painted, it’s imperative to not only sand off the old paint, but sand a second time smoothing out the wood to prepare the surface for a n ...

Among them is the Allentown Art Museum, which has a roughly 500-year-old painting that Jewish collector Henry Bromberg sold as he escaped from Germany. After negotiating with Bromberg’s heirs ...

By Robin Pogrebin Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter ...

Without any help, it can be a time-consuming effort. To alleviate the task, paint strippers will break down old paint and make it easier to remove. However, it is important to handle paint ...

In ancient Egypt, paint was sourced from minerals, such as ocre, that were then ground into a powder, according to research ...

If you’re not sick of the paint-it-white trend ... the new sweet little globe fixture is an improvement over the old light. It’s understated yet attractive, and probably provides much better ...