Amidst a buzz of rumors, the Cleveland Museum of Art paid an estimated $550,000 in 1959 for Rubens’ Diana and Her Nymphs Departing for the Chase. Last week Oil Billionaire Jean Paul Getty said he had ...

Q: I’m painting the interior of my house soon. What’s the best way to protect my bird? A: You’re smart to take that into consideration. Birds have delicate respiratory systems that can be adversely ...

Have you ever wanted to make art in the presence of a bird of prey? Thanks to an army of dedicated people who have made it their job to protect threatened and injured birds, dozens of rescued raptors ...

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The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch is internationally renowned for the palpable sense of angst and anguish in his Expressionist and Symbolist works. But fans of his might feel similarly upon learning ...

An abstract picture, by definition, refers to no reality but its own. But lately several abstract painters have begun to create works that utilize one of the most venerable conventions of ...

While many argue that "modern art" began in the 1800s, could it actually have started with Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, nearly a century before? What is "modern ...