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 look at the painting — which is not of a woman playing a lute, as the MFA's title has ... Described by the art historian John T. Spike as "reclusive, proud, and obstinate," Crespi was ...

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 ...

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 ...