06/07/2019. Blinds can become the most noticeable element of the interior, or, on the contrary, merge with the background and stay “invisible”. To choose the color of the blinds correctly, it is necessary to take into account the palette, style and pro...

06/16/2019. Of the approximately 30 ceramics factories in the city of Delft towards the end of the 17th century ‘The Greek A’ was surely one of the most innovative and international. They had of course ample funding as they could count King William and...

10/18/2019. The physical environments of art fairs tend to be utilitarian convention halls, although there are some — like the Frieze fairs in London, New York and Los Angeles, with their light-filled, architect-designed tents — that try to boost the a...

10/18/2019. Harold Bloom, the prodigious literary critic who championed and defended the Western canon in an outpouring of influential books that appeared not only on college syllabuses but also — unusual for an academic — on bestseller lists, died Mon...

10/20/2019. For a time, a crucifix hung on the wall of the Grace House lobby. Then, in the early 1980s, something else took its place: the stark black outline of a crawling infant, in thick strokes of paint beaming outward. In the decades at Grace House, a Ca...

11/07/2019. Gary Tinterow, Director and Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, today announced that the institution’s multi-year project to expand and redevelop its Susan and Fayez ...

11/13/2019. Matthew Barton’s highly-regarded sale has become a well-known source for those wishing to enrich their collections with rarer European and Asian ceramics, silver, bronzes, textiles, miniatures and jewellery that are within realms of affordabilit...

11/25/2019. With her wry sense of humor honed by a coquettish but self-doubting vanity, French novelist Colette would doubtless have been flattered to see the painstakingly authentic renovation of her childhood home by Paris decorator Jacques Grange in Saint-Sau...

11/26/2019. Comic books have been around since the 1930s, each story taking shape as it moves from its writer to its artists (usually a penciler and an inker) and then to its letterer and colorist. Today, that team effort, which also includes an editor review...