In our own troubled times, it’s common to dismiss the arts as merely decorative, trivial, distracting. But historians know better, arguing that if you want to identify when change starts, the best ...

Lesbian Visibility Week USA (#LVWUSA25), powered by The Curve Foundation, kicked off on Monday, April 21, 2025, and will run ...

History teaches us to stick with Ukraine, and the costs of supporting this democratic nation are far lower than the benefits ...

Soyoung Lee, a specialist in Korean ceramics, is the new director and CEO of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Lee succeeds longtime CEO Jay Xu, who had served in the role since 2008. (Asian Art ...

The Dobel Tequila Grandes Maestros Collection: The Francisco Toledo Edition stands as an example of the artist’s ability to blur the lines between functionality and fine art, between tradition ...

Visitors view artworks at the San Francisco Art Fair at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, the United States, April 19, 2024. The art fair opens to the public from April 18 to April 20 this year.

Laura French From 1883 up until his death in 1926, Catalan art nouveau master Antoni Gaudí ... which was bombed by Spanish dictator Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War (you can see ...

Looking at a painting and getting hungry? It might be a bodegón! Here we define the genre of Spanish bodegones in the context of 17th century European painting and acknowledge its ties to Italian and ...

Francisco Goya’s work includes the abundant Rococo style, formal portraiture, anti-war etchings, religious paintings, and the dark and surreal.