Learning about famous artists helps us understand our collective culture and history. By exploring their lives and works, we can gain insight into cultural influences that shaped their creative ...

A collection of short films exploring how famous artists used their individual techniques to create their world famous masterpieces. They cover topics and techniques such as sculpture, cubism ...

For our annual Museums Issue, The Washington Post’s critics highlight the country’s wealth of art museums, from its neoclassical temples to its modern jewels (and those that offer both). Below, we ...

Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis Colorful, intricate drawings on ...

China’s second city was already pushing building boundaries with its architectural wonders when Dubai was still little more ...

By Jillian Steinhauer Tamara de Lempicka’s first major U.S. survey invokes her as a trailblazing techno-feminist who borrowed freely from art history. But it also buries her erratic second act.

When we think of artists, our minds automatically jump ... During this time, Lewis made work in the Neoclassical style, ...

“There’s an emotional mirroring or matching of the music to the art’s mood,” Paul told ... Picasso’s abstract experiments and neoclassical pieces tie in with the more traditional phases ...

Most of De Maria’s earliest works appear to be unrelated to the land art for which he’s most famous. Hand-crafted in wood and inviting hands-on interaction, they seem to have more in common ...

For our annual Museums Issue, The Washington Post’s critics highlight the country’s wealth of art museums, from its neoclassical temples to its modern jewels (and those that offer both).

The paintings are drawn from public collections in every part of the country, big and small, from the most famous to the completely unknown. They include the UK’s national museums and galleries ...

Plus, the veteran journalist Lynn Barber tells us about her encounters with artists and we discover a forgotten master of Neo-Classical art ...