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Composition IX, Wassily Kandinsky, 1936

You Can Listen to Kandinsky’s Vibrant Paintings at This New Exhibition in Paris

Through artworks and audio recordings, “Kandinsky: The Music of Colors” explores how music influenced the Russian artist’s abstract compositions

The stolen items include a pair of scrimshaw walrus tusks and neckpieces by American metalsmith Florence Resnikoff.

Thieves Steal More Than 1,000 Artifacts From a California Museum’s Storage Facility

The “brazen” heist at the Oakland Museum of California occurred in the early morning hours of October 15. Investigators are working to track down the missing items

Friedrich Heyser's oil-on-canvas painting depicts a scene from William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Why Hundreds of Taylor Swift Fans Are Flocking to See This 100-Year-Old Painting at a Museum in Germany

Painted around 1900, Friedrich Heyser’s “Ophelia” may have been an inspiration for a popular song on the singer’s latest album

The Mutiny on the Amistad, one of three murals depicting the saga of the slave ship Amistad, was jointly sold to two organizations that lend American art to public institutions. 

An Alabama HBCU Is Selling Historic Murals in First-of-its-Kind Partnership

Talladega College will sell four of its six Hale Woodruff murals, which commemorate the Undergound Railroad and the mutiny of Amistad

Three of the counterfeit paintings confiscated by Bavarian authorities

This Forgery Ring Tried to Sell a Fake Rembrandt for $150 Million. The Real Painting Is Hanging in an Amsterdam Museum

The conspirators claimed that their canvas was the original, while the Rijksmuseum’s was an inferior copy. They also marketed forgeries of works by Picasso, Frida Kahlo and more

Woman at Her Toilette, Berthe Morisot, 1875-1880

See How Manet and Morisot’s Creative Friendship Influenced Their Artistic Styles

A new exhibition in San Francisco reframes the complicated relationship between two renowned 19th-century French artists

The People’s Salvation Cathedral stands more than 410 feet tall.

The World’s Largest Christian Orthodox Church Is Now Open in Romania

The People’s Salvation Cathedral in Bucharest is covered in stunning frescoes and mosaics. At 410 feet tall, it cost more than $300 million and took 15 years to build

On October 21, the New York City Council and the Basquiat Estate oversaw the co-naming of a portion of Great Jones Street in honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

You Can Now Take a Stroll Down Jean-Michel Basquiat Way in New York City

A stretch of lower Manhattan has been named in honor of the iconic artist, who rented a studio there from Andy Warhol between 1983 and 1988

Hell, unknown artist, circa 1510 to 1520

This Disturbing 16th-Century Painting of Hell Linked Satan and His Demons With the New World Beyond Europe

The panel features monsters with African, Indigenous Caribbean and intersex features, encouraging viewers to connect the sins and punishments depicted to those considered “other”

The dollhouse belonging to Petronella Oortman

Take a Virtual Tour of This Lavish Dollhouse, the Centerpiece of a New Exhibition on Everyday Life in the 17th Century

Helena Bonham Carter provides an English-language tour of the Rijksmuseum’s miniature masterpiece, which stands at about six and a half feet tall

This 14th- or 15th-century aquamanile, a vessel for pouring water in domestic and religious settings, shows a sexual depiction of the legend of Aristotle and Phyllis.

See How These Medieval Artists Explored the Many Meanings of Love and Desire in a New Exhibition at the Met Cloisters

The show features more than 50 paintings, manuscripts, textiles and other artworks created in Western Europe between the 13th and 15th centuries

Sheet of Studies, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, circa 1885-86

See Renoir’s Rare Drawings on Display in the First Exhibition of Its Kind Since 1921

Around 100 of the French Impressionist painter’s lesser-known paper works are now on view at New York City’s Morgan Library and Museum

The Sleeping Gypsy, Henri Rousseau, 1897

Meet Henri Rousseau, the Untrained Artist Who Wouldn’t Quit Painting—Despite the Ridicule He Received From Critics

A new retrospective at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia examines the career of the 19th- and 20th-century French painter, who toiled in obscurity for most of his life

Winslow Homer’s 1892 painting The Blue Boat shows his masterful use of watercolor’s layering effects.

The Delicate Works of Winslow Homer Are About to Get Their Rare Moment in the Limelight

The watercolors of the American master will be on exhibition at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, some for the only time in a generation

One of David Hockney's drawings from The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, created on an iPad

David Hockney’s iPad Drawings of Winter’s Transformation Into Spring Blow Past Estimates at Auction

Seventeen works from the artist’s 2011 series went for more than $8 million at a Sotheby’s sale on October 17

Flores holds up leaves from the Fittonia albivenis, a rainforest plant whose veins naturally form the patterns her people call kené. 

The Amazon Has Been This Peruvian Artist’s Home, Inspiration and Palette. Now the World Is Her Gallery

The art of making captivating Peruvian textiles has traditionally been anonymous work. But at 75, Sara Flores is making a name for herself with hypnotic abstractions

French police officers stand by the ladder that robbers used to enter the Louvre on October 19.

Burglars Just Broke Into the Louvre and Stole Historic Crown Jewels in a Daring Daylight Heist

In a matter of minutes, thieves climbed a ladder and smashed display cases before fleeing the scene with eight valuable artifacts. The jewels had been housed just 270 yards from the “Mona Lisa”

The Fabergé Winter Egg was designed by Alma Pihl.

This Rare Fabergé Egg Might Set a World Record at Auction for the Third Time in Its History

Commissioned by the Russian emperor Nicholas II, the diamond-covered Winter Egg is expected to fetch $27 million when it goes under the hammer in London on December 2

Pablo Picasso painted Still Life With Guitar in 1919.

This Tiny Picasso Painting Went Missing While Traveling to an Exhibition in Spain

A few days before “Still Life With Guitar” was supposed to go on display in Granada, staffers discovered the piece had vanished from a group of artworks that had recently arrived by truck

An open-air art gallery at Dublin's Merrion Square park in 2021

Ireland Makes a Program Offering Basic Income for Artists Permanent

After a successful three-year pilot, the country will continue to provide 2,000 artists with $1,500 per month

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