More and more, the real competition between major auction houses involves securing single-owner consignments before strategically structuring the financial terms to ensure headline-generating sales.

This type of art often seems confusing or even random to the average viewer. Abstract art has a bad reputation. For many ...

Eight decades after liberation from the Nazis, silence, shame and a struggling legal system keep Jewish property in Dutch family homes ...

A mathematical method borrowed from topology can reveal structural properties of visual art that correspond to how people ...

Mathematicians have calculated a “golden rule” for abstract art that famous artists tend to follow when they compose their ...

View legendary artifacts like the Rosetta Stone on a virtual stroll through the British Museum. Gaze up at the Sistine Chapel’s divine ceiling without the crowds at the Vatican Museums. Explore mini ...

Like Karol Szymanowski, Thomas de Hartmann (1884-1956) spent his earliest years in that part of the Tsarist Empire which is ...

The focus on music in this year’s programming at the Hamburger Bahnhof is indicative of a larger trend that has been going on ...