For many years of her life, Georgia O’Keeffe was a New Yorker.

Get out there this summer—into the gardens, into the galleries, and into a new experience (or ten). From energetic gatherings ...

Cities—centers of human activity, growth, and creativity—have long incited imaginative responses from artists across time and ...

American artist David Wojnarowicz (1954–1992) came to prominence in the 1980s amid New York’s vibrant East Village art scene. Working across media—painting, photography, installations, performance, ...

“One instant, one aspect of nature contains it all,” said Claude Monet, referring to his late masterpieces, the water landscapes that he produced at his home in Giverny between 1897 and his death in ...

Japanese aristocrats engaged in the elegant custom of recollecting classical poetry while viewing spring and autumn foliage. In these delicate screens, premier court painter Tosa Mitsuoki meditated on ...

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Portraits of important people appear on local currency all around the world. The same was true in ancient Rome, which began producing its first coinage in the late 4th century BCE. Early coins ...

In this triptych, Mary, crowned as the queen of heaven, is surrounded by female saints in an enclosed garden (called a hortus conclusus) evoking paradise. Singled out on the right wing is Saint Ursula ...

The subject of the victory of the gods of Olympus over the ancient race of giants provided Joachim Wtewael with the opportunity to depict exaggerated athletic poses and striking contrasts of space and ...

Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago is the most extensive investigation to date of the museum’s works from ancient Rome. The catalogue focuses on 165 significant objects, many published for the ...