While this winter’s premier auctions for Old Master works at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York yielded better results year ...

The looming pink-and-white building is now a museum with art by Tintoretto and Veronese. Nearby is the 318-foot Campanile di San Marco bell tower, which was once frequented by Galileo to study the ...

Impressive buildings and beautiful grounds await in the Loire Valley, Dordogne, and Alsace at these 8 beautiful French castles you can visit on your next trip to France.

Paris' centuries-old Louvre Museum — home of da Vinci's iconic Mona Lisa — is getting an $800 million makeover, and American visitors will have to help pay for it.

Edward Boccia was an influential American Expressionist in his lifetime. Now, a New York exhibition sheds light on his ...

Molten lead cascaded from the roof into the centre hall, and then the dome crashed to the ground, leaving the interior an ...

Martin Kimani, a former Kenyan diplomat, said his past work positions him to build on the Africa Center’s diverse programming that goes beyond art. With major gifts to leading arts institutions ...

Several centuries ago, if you wanted to cross the Grand Canal, the Rialto Bridge was the only way. There are now four major bridges that cross the canal, but Rialto is by far the most famous. The ...

Second Corinthians is the third, or possibly the fourth letter Paul wrote to the Corinthians. In First Corinthians 5:9, he ...

Chloe Veltman is a correspondent on NPR's Culture Desk. From her base in San Francisco where she has lived for more than 20 years, Veltman covers a wide array of cultural news and trends, with a ...

From the Holy Grail of English watercolours to an El Greco that will transport you back to the 1600s, Christie’s specialists offer an exclusive look ...

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