Art and movie

Do the Mother and Child duo in this image look familiar to you? Yes, me too; aren't they dead ringers for the Mother and Child in Raphael's Sistine Madonna? That...

It often makes me want to contact an author when, while doing art history research, I am forced to look up words that appear to have been included solely to...

The special exhibition Excavating Egypt: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London is currently making its way through some lucky United States art museums. It...

British Museum Tickets for Exhibition on Sale Now By Stan Parchin Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, revealed on February 7, 2007 details of The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army, the...

When Gail Myhre, Correspondent for Museums and Special Exhibitions, expressed an interest in viewing Glitter and Doom - German Portraits from the 1920s (on view at The Metropolitan Museum of...

As Stan Parchin reports, there's quite an intriguing story behind many of the sculpted heads on view in Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Art. This exhibition, at...

Over the course of the past couple years, it has occasionally seemed to me as if every other day's arts news glowingly mentioned the painters of the "New Leipzig School"...

Italian Renaissance Master in the News By Stan Parchin Agence-France Presse reported on January 20, 2007 that Guiseppe Pallanti, author of Mona Lisa Revealed: The True Identity of Leonardo's Model (Skira, 2006),...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced in a press release on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 that it will begin augmenting the current 500,000 art images in the ARTstor charter collection...

It seems as if every time I hear the word "Impressionism" my mind's eye immediately begins composing an out-of-doors scene, so I was eager to get a glimpse of the...