06/29/2024. In 2024, as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations, the Fondation de l’Hermitage hosts an exceptional exhibition in partnership with the Museum Langmatt, Baden. This magnificent collection of primarily Impressionist works, acquired between 19...

06/29/2024. The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam says it will return an Henri Matisse painting that has been in its collection since 1941 to the heirs of its former owner, a German-Jewish textile manufacturer and art patron who sold it to fund his family’s esc...

06/29/2024. Central London’s vibrant Fitzrovia neighborhood – an urban village with a bohemian history – is home to many celebrities and art-centric businesses, including Apollo Art Auctions<...

06/30/2024. Paul Sperry, a tenor who championed little-known American art song and spiky contemporary works, and was praised for his incisive performances of the classics, died June 13 in New York. He was 90. His death, in a hospital, was caused by heart fail...

06/30/2024. To many fashionable women in the mid-20th century, no hat was worth wearing unless it was made by Otto Lucas. A London-based milliner, Lucas designed chic turbans, berets and cloches, often made from luxe velvets and silks and adorned with flowers...

07/01/2024. Beginning July 5 and running through July 28, Carver Hill Gallery presents Finding Home, an exhibition featuring 24 works by art...

07/01/2024. Norman Rockwell Museum recently opened a landmark retrospective exploring the art, satire, and cultural impact of MAD Magazine, one of the longest-running humor publications in America. A counter-cultu...

07/01/2024. The long-awaited American premiere of a new season of the German hit “Babylon Berlin” was the big news this week in the realm of international television series. But interesting shows from other countries arrive on an almost daily basis. He...

07/02/2024. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery announced today that it has acquired the earliest known photograph of a U.S. First Lady for its permanent collection. Likely dating from 1846, the recently rediscovered photograph of former First Lady ...

07/02/2024. “God gave me the voice that people want to hear,” Paul Robeson, the great African American singer, actor and activist, told Black newspaper The New York Age in a 1949 interview. Aware of his powers and obliged by his influence, Robeson i...

07/03/2024. June Leaf, a painter and sculptor whose exploration of the female form, by turns whimsical, graceful or ominous, paved the way for later generations of feminist artists, died Monday at her home in New York City. She was 94. The cause was gastric c...