When Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States in November 1860, frayed stitching held the nation’s fabric in place. By December, the divide between North and South grew ever wider when...

A life-size replica of the famed Manhattan nightclub CBGB bathroom, initiates an immersive effort to transport us back to the antipathetic aesthetic circa. 1975. The Ramones bang and strum on loudspeakers, while...

First the bad news: In May 2012, a series of powerful earthquakes struck the region of Emilia-Romagna, in northeastern Italy, all but devastating the cities of Ferrara, Mantua, Modena and many other historic towns....

“Every photograph is a fake from start to finish, a purely impersonal, unmanipulated photograph being practically impossible.” This observation, made by American photographer and artist Edward Steichen, may not...

Winding your way through the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Warhol wonderland is a bit like trying to make sense of a connect-the-dots drawing. The shape and the subject are there somewhere but where?

“Art is good for you,” reads the label comment accompanying kindergartener Olivia Turowski’s delightful cut and torn tissue-paper collage The Red Fox, one of 76 works in the P.S. 2012: Celebrating the Creative...

The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates famously remarked that life is short, but art is long and The Metropolitan Museum’s current exhibition of north Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, while...

The relativity of time is a tricky business for most of us, so armchair traveling to the birth of Cleopatra in 69 B.C., or back to the completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza in 2560 B.C. feels far enough, thank you...

Given the media’s almost daily drumbeat reporting the ill will, distrust, and unveiled hostility defining today’s Iran, it seems not only implausible but foolhardy to believe that art...

“What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters.”

—Edgar Degas