Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist who created an enduring system for naming plants and animals, was also a keen purchaser of farms. In the late 1750s while in his fifties he bought three ...

In the 18th century, the Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus set out to classify life, creating a system of taxonomy that still endures. But, as Firelei Báez – an artist from the Dominican Republic, based ...

This college city in Minnesota was once considered for the capital of the state. Now it's a charming blend of laid-back culture and beautiful access to nature.

The art historian Sofia Gotti, who lectures in curating at the Courtauld Institute in London, points to the heavy presence of painting at the 2024 Venice Biennale, which she co-curated, to ...

Paintings with ties to an infamous New Mexico couple have been returned to the museum they were stolen from 40 years ago. Last Friday, officials at the University of New Mexico’s Harwood Museum ...

HUDSON, Ohio -- The exhibition, “Dalí Beyond Time: Fashioning the Future,” opens Thursday, June 12, at a small art gallery at First & Main in Hudson. After making a U.S. debut in Northeast ...

Book Review How Painting Saved One of Our Most Iconic Designers A visit to Michaels craft store helped restore book jacket designer Peter Mendelsund during a deep bout of depression.

Only a Carpathian would end up in a thrift store! Seemingly by random, on Ghostbusters day this past week (June 7, 2025), a reproduction of the famous painting of Vigo, the Scourge of Carpathia ...

Congratulations to Silvan Negrutiu, director of Piano Studies at NAU, and his piano colleagues in NAU’s Kitt School of Music: ...

It’s sociological, even political.” In her paintings, Mayorga constructs a world in which beauty becomes both shield and strategy. As Mayorga puts it, the paintings are layered in every sense.

But before Caravaggio was ever heralded as a genius, he was just another impoverished artist struggling to survive in Rome. He had arrived from his native Milan at the age of 20 in 1592, fresh off ...

After a long-forgotten painting of Hercules and Omphale was punctured during the 2020 explosion in Beirut, it has been painstakingly restored over more than three years — and is now on show at ...