Portrait of Adèle Papin Playing the Harp, oil on canvas, c. 1799. The 17-year-old sitter, the famously beautiful daughter of a prominent family, was later rumored to be Napoleon’s mistress.…
In Still Life With Brioche, c. 1890, Victoria Dubourg Fantin-Latour captures the buttery crust of a signature pastry. Known for her tablescapes, she met her artist husband Henri when both…
Artist Tyrus Wong, with kites of his own design, at California’s Santa Monica Beach Annie Wells / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images Tyrus Wong arrived in San Francisco from…
Tiger, oil on canvas, 1912. The artist’s vibrant animal paintings were based on careful study, including hours spent observing big cats at the Berlin Zoo. Lenbachhaus Munich, Donation of the…
The First Knot (with heart-shaped shield), Albrecht Dürer, woodcut, 1506-1507. UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum Printmaking, which dates to ancient times, was long considered a craft,…
Elissaveta M. Brandon Contributing Writer Drivers in Dallas earlier this year may have noticed a curious trio of billboards on the side of Highway 67. Instead of advertising for the…
In Still Life With Brioche, c. 1890, Victoria Dubourg Fantin-Latour captures the buttery crust of a signature pastry. Known for her tablescapes, she met her artist husband Henri when both…
An 1851 ink-and-watercolor gift drawing titled A Type of Mother Hannah’s Pocket Handkerchief by Polly Jane Reed, a Shaker in New Lebanon, New York. Andrews Collection, Hancock Shaker Village, Massachusetts…
The Original Vienna Snow Globe Factory produces roughly 300,000 snow globes per year. Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images In the opening scene of the 1941 mystery Citizen Kane, the eponymous…
Samantha Baskind Museums Correspondent Audrey Flack laughed when remembering that painter Alice Neel called her a whippersnapper in the 1970s. Just after celebrating her 90th birthday in 2021, far from…
