“Portrait of a Young Girl” (c. 1470) is a small, seemingly simple picture, measuring less than 9 inches by 11.5 inches. Painted in oil on oak by Petrus Christus (c. 1410-1475/76) in a cool, muted ...

A beautiful thing happened this week in our city: a supernova of memes immortalizing the archetype of the "Northeast Philly dude," the one true dawg who lives everywhere in our midst. It all began ...

On “The Charterhouse of Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos,” at The Frick Collection in New York. Among the many pleasures afforded by The Frick Collection are the small and focused ...

Let the light in. Five years after the Metropolitan Museum of Art set off on a major renovation of its galleries for European painting, the superprime real estate at the top of its grand staircase is ...

Founded in 1903, The Burlington Magazine soon established itself as the world's leading monthly art periodical. Covering all aspects of the fine and decorative arts from ancient times to the present ...

Great paintings preserve images of the people of their era. These are the faces that we are used to seeing in museums and art textbooks. But what if we replaced these models with modern Hollywood ...