Everyone knows that classical sculpture is white. Think of the gleaming marble of artworks like the Belvedere Torso and “Laocoön and His Sons” — the whiteness imparts a kind of purity, a sense of ...

Much of the mystery surrounding the Venus de Milo concerns her missing arms, from their fate to what they may have held. For a brief moment this week, people in her home city of Paris could observe ...

Classical art usually feels pretty far removed from everyday life — grand paintings, dramatic lighting, and subjects who clearly have no idea what a smartphone is. Artist Alexey Kondakov decided to ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Twenty-two of the objects are from museums in Greece and ten from European collections: the Louvre, the British ...

If you were to survey the exhibition history of major U.S. museums and art venues over the last two decades, the trends would be heavily weighted toward modernist and contemporary art. This is what ...

Despite some red tide and event delays due to Hurricane Nicole, this year's annual Siesta Key Crystal Classic sand sculpting competition still transformed Siesta Key Beach into an outdoor art gallery ...

Museum of Art of Ogunquit, 1990. Image on file. (Bottom:) Lyford signed The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of ...