At Large

Photo of the empty frame where The Storm on the Sea of Galilee was once displayed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. March 2018. Wikimedia Commons. Photo by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. r
All the Art Mysteries and Heists You Need to Know
The art world has its share of mysteries. From the impressive scale of prehistoric structures, to who exactly posed for enigmatic portraits.
Archaeologists at the Pompeii Archaeological Park stand within the first-floor bedroom in the house of the lararium. Credit: Archaeological Park of Pompeii.
Middle-Class Dwellings Found at Pompeii

Over the summer, excavators at Pompeii made an insightful and critical discovery…

Daniel Chester French in his studio, New York, c. 1889, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC
Daniel Chester French: The Lincoln Memorial's Sculptor
The Berkshires, a lush region of mountains, rolling green hills, and picturesque farmland in western Massachusetts, has long attracted artists looking to escape the summer heat and the frenetic year-…
"The fallen Christopher Columbus statue outside the Minnesota State Capitol after a group led by American Indian Movement members tore it down in St. Paul, Minnesota, on June 10, 2020." 
What’s the Deal with Christopher Columbus Monuments?

On October 12, 1492, Spanish ships waded into the Caribbean after a three-month-long journey. Led by Italian…

Leon Golub, Mercenaries IV (detail),1980
Leon Golub: The Dynamics of Power
A career-spanning exhibition of 70 works from 1947 to 2003 on view at The Hall Foundation in Reading Vermont from May 21, 2022, to November 27, 2022
Antonio da Correggio, Leda and the Swan, 1532, oil on canvas, 156.2 × 217.5 cm (61.5 x 85.6 in). Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Leda & the Swan Through Art History

“Leda and the Swan,” a sonnet by W. B. Yeats, begins: “A sudden blow: the great wings beating still/Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed/By the dark…

Zawi Hawass, the Egyptian head of the high council for antiquities, supervises the removal of the mummy of Tutankhamun in Luxor in 2007. 
King Tut May Lead us to Nefertiti’s Tomb

A recent discovery of hidden hieroglyphics in the ancient Egyptian tomb of…

Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, 1907. Oil, silver, and gold on canvas, 138 cm x 138 cm (54 in x 54 in), Neue Galerie, New York City, New York.
Gustav Klimt & the Art Nouveau Woman's Fighting Spirit

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was born and died in Vienna, where he helped found the…