The Harvard Art Museums received a bequest of 62 prints and two paintings by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, an addition that makes the museum’s collection of Munch’s work one of the largest in ...

A trove of works by the Norwegian Expressionist painter and printmaker Edvard Munch has been gifted to Harvard Art Museums by the late collectors Lynn Straus and her husband, Philip Straus ...

Together with the oil version of the scene, she adds, the museums can now provide “a truly deep dive” into how Munch explored one of his more notable motifs. Edvard Munch, Train Smoke ...

The Harvard Art Museums announce an extraordinary gift from the collection of Philip A. and Lynn G. Straus; the gift comprises sixty-two prints and two paintings by Edvard Munch as well as one print ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

The first month of a Trump administration is never much fun for Democrats. And if you think the party gets depressed about federal spending freezes, imagine the mood in the Senate Democratic ...

Recently, on Monday, January 20th, two Chinese women drove their Mercedes SUV into the Forbidden City in Beijing. That event created quite a controversy.

Cases of loose inspiration or coincidental convergences in art can be fascinating, because they force us to rethink what originality really means.

A couple of days ago, responding to my piece “We Had a Good 50-Year Run, Folks,” a colleague told me, “Bill, you’ve really outdone yourself with the gloom this morning.” I took this, of course, as a ...

“Too many of the people that used to vote for us, the very burdened middle class we’re talking about, have not trusted us in national elections to defend our national interests abroad, to put their ...