In a special exhibit featuring just three paintings, the Frick Collection in New York is inviting viewers to contemplate the age and the art of seduction by the written word. The show brings ...

Three paintings now on view at the Frick by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer center on epistolary exchanges in the domestic sphere.

“The (Vermeer) paintings were so small that the only way I could get any detail was I had to zoom in to allow me to paint the Vermeer to get all the detail,” says Fig, head of fine art at ...

Christian campaigners have launched a petition against the display of a 19th-century prophylactic depicting a semi-naked nun ...

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Thomas McKenney, United States superintendent of Indian trade in Georgetown, then port of entry for the District of Columbia, conceived the idea of developing a government collection of portraits of ...

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