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Research has shown that as early as the 1500s, 90 percent of homeowners in Antwerp owned at least one portrait or religious ...

As high quality, contemporary art booms, a source told The Post, “A lot of the highly speculative contemporary art went down ...

The art world moved forward with glowing renovations to some of New York City’s cultural jewels, as well as sweeping surveys of ballroom queens, Indigenous artists and more. By Holland Cotter Agnes ...

There’s no doubt that emotion and art are intrinsically linked, whether it’s the viewer’s experience or the artist’s subjects. Yet little has been revealed about how art-evoked emotions stem from the ...

A wealthy client at Bank of America Corp. put up his fine-art collection so he could borrow enough to buy a sports franchise. Another posted his cache of 19th century American landscapes to renovate ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Non-fungible tokens have transformed the art world, offering artists innovative ways to create, sell and profit from their digital ...

Just a few months ago, Jazmine Boykins was posting her artwork online for free. The 20-year-old digital artist’s dreamy animations of Black life were drawing plenty of likes, comments and shares, but ...

Some parents hear the word "art" and envision marker on the couch, handprints on the walls and tons of general chaos. But it doesn't have to be chaotic – and creating art with your kids can propel ...

One of my favorite sayings comes from David Thoreau: “My life has been the poem I would have writ / But I could not both live and utter it.” It speaks to the way that life and art are intertwined, and ...

Art as an alternative asset can diversify investments and hedge against inflation. Returns on art are generally comparable to bonds, but high-cost art may not always yield profit. Investing in art ...