See About archive blog posts. On loan from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Woman With a Lute,” by Johannes Vermeer, is on view through Sept. 26 at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena.

When I was at the Joint Math Meetings in January, the evocative name “Lute of Pythagoras” jumped out at me in a talk by Ann Hanson of Columbia College in Chicago. Hanson teaches a course, Math in Art ...

before undergoing major work courtesy of the Hermitage Another version of the Lute Player is owned by the Wildenstein family and was on long-term loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Tuesday, March 5: Is This Art? Contemporary art isn’t always the easiest to understand. What does an odd-shaped sculpture or a painting of a bunch of lines say about the world, and why should we ...

BATU PAHAT: The gambus, the pear-shaped Malay lute used in ghazal and zapin music, continues to be a vibrant part of the local scene with people like Halidan Ithnin making sure the art of making ...

and cab rides difficult, if not impossible. O'Dette is the go-to guy when it comes to the lute and in a conversation with Bruce Duffie of WNIB radio in Chicago, he talks about reviving the lost art of ...