Venice was “too beautiful to be painted,” according to Claude Monet. Yet he painted the Italian city anyway.

A woman left the internet in shock after she painted over an intricate oil painting, but the results were astonishing. Known for blending realism and contemporary art, Irina's latest work left viewers ...

Artist Laurent Smith created art in his Bay St. Louis home from the late 1960's until the mid 90's. His oil paintings captured southern landscapes of New Orleans, rural Louisiana, Mississippi and ...

This is as close to perfection as museum exhibitions come: 28 oil paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) – three-quarters of those known to exist – at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam until June 4th.

Tom Wilson’s remarkable search for identity is all encompassing. Since discovering six years ago, that his birth parents were Mohawk from the Kahnawake reserve in Quebec, that search has expressed ...

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