Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

Phylicia Rashad has joined the cast as an aristocratic matriarch. In an interview, she, Audra McDonald and Denée Benton ...

In 1848 or thereabouts, a talented artist painted an almost life-size group portrait of the three children of one of the ...

Osman Hamdi Bey’s 'Preparing Coffee' challenges Western stereotypes by portraying Ottoman life from an insider’s perspective, ...

John Singer Sargent is a minor character in the third season of HBO's "The Gilded Age"—but he was the major high society ...

Two groundbreaking exhibitions in Chicago explore the shift in portrayals of same-sex attraction. They are being staged at a ...

A bullet that grazed his ear and his extraordinary instant response became a defining moment, and for his supporters the ...

This exhibition shows off the glitz and glamour of the period while presenting a subtler message about the role of royalty in ...

Artemisia Gentileschi, born in Rome in 1593 and dying in Naples around 1654, was something of a youthful prodigy who also ...

Influenced by Caravaggio, a rare work by the Baroque artist Diana de Rosa's fetched nearly half a million dollars at ...

Andrea Condes, 39, was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and adopted into the United States, where she grew up and pursued a career ...