The Miniature Painter Revealed' by Kathleen Langone tells the story of the long-forgotten Gilded Age miniaturist, Amalia ...

Every picture tells a story, as the saying goes, yet throughout history, the narrator has been overwhelmingly male, ...

A clear guide to the key differences between Modern and contemporary art movements, from Cubism to street art.

The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson has a new exhibit to celebrate the golden anniversary of a vast and ...

A photographer who pioneered techniques to create detailed images by combining multiple negatives is being celebrated 170 ...

Heritage meets gumption at the Costume Institute’s big spring exhibition, where pathbreaking pieces join anonymous garments ...

Women artists are out there and not so difficult to find, but once we find them, we have to accept the fact that the art ...

In ‘Flashes of Brilliance’ (Norton, July), the photo editor traces the evolution of photography from the mid-19th to the ...

As we scroll through our social media feeds today, we’re bombarded with countless images enhanced by modern photo editing tools. But the desire to perfect one’s appearance isn’t new. In the past, ...

In Open, Heaven, his first novel, he has produced a kind of origin story for just such a talent – a portrait of the ... in the early nineteenth century”. Thornmere, in other words, is the ...

The United States finalizes the Louisiana Purchase from France, adding the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains to its territory. Meriwether Lewis, of the legendary duo Lewis ...