Art
Upcoming Planet Word Museum Celebrates Language—and Is Slated to Be Talk of the Town
The Washington, D.C.-based museum will open its doors on May 31
Pennsylvania Museum Discovers Unidentified Rembrandt Portrait in Its Collection
Conservation work revealed evidence of the artist's hand in a painting previously attributed to a member of his studio
Nine Women Whose Remarkable Lives Deserve the Biopic Treatment
From Renaissance artists to aviation pioneers, suffragists and scientists, these women led lives destined for the silver screen
Bookended by Wasp Nests, These Aboriginal Artworks May Finally Have Definitive Dates
New estimates place paintings in Australia's Kimberley rock shelters at about 12,000 years old
The Painstaking Art of Ice Carving
It might be cold and labor intensive, but that doesn’t stop artists from testing their ice sculpting skills at the World Ice Art Championships in Fairbanks
One Hundred Museums Transformed Their Collections Into Free Coloring Pages
This year's #ColorOurCollections campaign features everything from medical drawings to zany 1920s advertisements for butter
See Winston Churchill's Little-Known Art
Best known for serving as Britain's prime minister during World War II, Churchill was also an amateur painter and avid writer
Artists Who Paint With Their Feet Have Unique Brain Patterns
Neuroscientists determined that certain "sensory maps" in the brain become more refined when people use their feet like hands
Who Owns the Art Recovered From Shipwrecks?
A thought-provoking exhibit at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco draws on artifacts from two centuries-old shipwrecks
How the Video Works of John Baldessari Defined Contemporary Art
Smithsonian curator Saisha Grayson examines the legacy of one of the greats of American Art
How Japanese Artist Chiura Obata Came to Be an American Great
With landscapes infused with an emotion borne of a life of struggle, this master receives his due in this traveling retrospective now at the Smithsonian
How Jacob Lawrence Painted a Radical History of the American Struggle
The Peabody Essex Museum is reuniting a series of paintings that explore the hidden stories of the nation's formative years
The National Portrait Gallery's Obama Portraits Will Embark on a Five-City Tour
Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald's paintings of Barack and Michelle Obama are set to visit Chicago, Brooklyn, L.A., Atlanta and Houston
Art Historian Identifies Ten Nazi-Looted Paintings in the Louvre's Collections
Emmanuelle Polack made the discovery less than one month after she was brought on board to study the museum's ill-gotten artwork
After 30 Years, Looted Kushan Bull Sculpture Will Return to Afghanistan's Kabul Museum
The artifact is one of thousands left destroyed, damaged or missing after civil war broke out in the 1990s
The Most Anticipated Museum Openings of 2020
Slated for this year are new institutions dedicated to ancient Egyptian, the Olympics, African American music and the Army
The Women Behind the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London explores 12 women's contributions to the male-dominated artistic circle
At Long Last, an Exhibition Celebrates Centuries of Women at Work
A new show at New York's Grolier Club features the collection of Lisa Unger Baskin, who sought to share the untold stories of women in the workforce
The Evolution of Pregnancy Portraits, From Tudor England to Beyoncé
A new show at the Foundling Museum in London highlights artists' depictions of pregnant women over the past 500 years
Five Old Master Paintings Recovered 40 Years After German Heist
Authorities suspect the artworks were smuggled into West Germany during the 1980s
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