Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology collaborated with the National Gallery of Art and other institutions to study the deterioration of an oil painting, entitled Gypsy ...
How did the acclaimed American artist Edward Hopper learn to paint? By copying other artists’ work out of instructional art magazines, it appears. A graduate student at the Courtauld Institute in ...
In 2017, one of the animated features nominated for the Oscar was “Loving Vincent,” a film about Vincent Van Gogh in which every single frame was painted in oil on canvas. Six years later, that film’s ...
Editor’s Note: David Coles is the founder and head paint-maker of Langridge Artist Colours. This is an edited extract from “Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color,” published by Thames & Hudson.
In his 1550 volume Lives of the Artists, painter and architect Giorgio Vasari snuck in praise for the Flemish artist Jan van Eyck in his chapter on the Italian painter Antonello da Messina. Vasari ...
Since leaving the White House, George W. Bush has written a memoir of his years in office and a book about his father. His third postpresidential book, out this month, is a departure from anything ...