03/28/2019. In this first segment of a two-part series, Jan David Winitz, president and founder of Claremont Rug Company, recalls one of his fondest memories. It was a telephone call that he received fro...

03/29/2019. While Jan David Winitz’s clients are diverse in their backgrounds and reside on six continents, they share a passion for great art and understand how their tastes can be melded into complementary matching of paintings, sculpture and furniture wi...

03/30/2019. A painting long thought to be a later imitation of Sandro Botticelli’s famous Madonna of the Pomegranate has been revealed to be a rare example by the artist’s own workshop, Engl...

04/01/2019. "I'm sure! I tell you, he came. I saw him!" insists Soro Navaghi, keen to extinguish any doubts about Picasso's visit to a small Ivorian village famed for its painted textiles. Whether in tourist brochures or online, it is not unusual to find refe...

04/03/2019. Among the most striking aspects of the two hundred years of the Prado Museum’s life since it first opened has been its progressive transformation into a place of pilgrimage for avant...

04/03/2019. From almost the dawn of human civilisation, gambling has been a part of human existence in one form or another. Whether it is playing cards, rolling dice or any other form, gambling has always played a part in the lives of humans. How gambling is per...

04/08/2019. In 1608, after a period of intense artistic study in Italy, Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) returned to his hometown of Antwerp. He found a city eager to renew its visual culture and ready to support him, a bold artist who worked at a rapid pace and dr...

04/04/2019. Every region across the world has its cultural and artistic belonging which is inculcated among the native population. You will be surprised to know that Australian culture is quite intense and does not appear to be restricted to its beer and barbequ...

04/12/2019. Organized by the McNay Art Museum and drawn from the renowned Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts, America on Stage celebrates the vision of the nation’s 20th- and 21st-century master designers ...

04/08/2019. On 2 May 2019, Italy and the whole world are ready to remember the day on which Leonardo da Vinci died, celebrating his 500th anniversary. Throughout the year exhibitions dedicated to him will take place in three major Italian cities that we are read...

04/13/2019. Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to take down two paintings by Emil Nolde from her office walls has touched off a heated German debate as an exhibition on the Expressionist painter and his links to the Nazis opened in Berlin. Organisers of the ...

04/14/2019. In a major archaeological discovery, Egypt on Saturday unveiled the tomb of a Fifth Dynasty official adorned with colourful reliefs and well preserved inscriptions. The tomb, near Saqqara, a vast necropolis south of Cairo, belongs to a senior offi...

04/14/2019. Art schools are a little bit different to regular schools because we can judge their merits based not on exam results but on the quality of the talent that we see coming out of them. In a regular school, students who don't succeed <a href="https://bi...

04/17/2019. Why call this new museum show Beyond the Cape? Compared to so many other exhibitions around the world about comic books, this original and unconventional take soars beyond just superheroes. Beyond the Cape! Comics and Contemporary Art shows how so...

04/18/2019. Van Gogh’s works View of the Sea at Scheveningen (1882) and Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen (1884-1885) are back on display at the Van Gogh Museum. After being stolen...