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Thirty years ago, while browsing London's Portobello Road market, the American jewelry designer Elizabeth Locke spotted a 1.5-square-inch image of the ancient Roman Temple of Vesta rendered in infinitesimal bits [...]

The Detroit Institute of Arts is currently hosting an exhibition titled "The Art of Dining: Food Culture in the Islamic World." The exhibition showcases around 230 pieces, including glassware, utensils, paintings, and cookbooks, that highlight the culinary history of the Islamic world. The exhibition takes a unique approach by emphasizing the functionality of the objects and organizing them thematically, such as "Eating for Health" and "Coffee Culture." Visitors are encouraged to read the labels and gallery guides to fully appreciate the exhibition. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum featuring the work of artist Elizabeth Catlett. The exhibition showcases over 200 sculptures, paintings, and works on paper, spanning Catlett's 75-year career. Catlett's art addresses the hardships faced by black people and Mexican peasants, and emphasizes her deep devotion to equality. The exhibition highlights Catlett's ability to capture character and convey tenderness and brutality in her work. It also explores her involvement in leftist artists' collectives in Mexico and her creation of images of heroic figures. The exhibition concludes with a display of Catlett's powerful sculptures, demonstrating her sure sense of line and beauty. Overall, Catlett's art is described as poignant and deeply humane. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses an exhibition at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine, titled "Lee Krasner: Geometries of Expression." The exhibition focuses on the early career of artist Lee Krasner, before she became known for her large-scale paintings. It explores her experimentation with different styles and features works by her contemporaries. The exhibition aims to recover lost chapters in Krasner's story and provides a promising outline for further study. [Extracted from the article]

This week, the International Quilt Study Center & Museum in Lincoln, Neb., will reveal a surprising side of the prolific filmmaker Ken Burns: He collects quilts. The exhibition ''Uncovered: The [...]

As visitors strolled through a recent display of Madame de Pompadour's coffee grinder, an 1840s Sèvres porcelain coffee set, tea canisters, sugar bowls and other European decorative arts at the [...]

New England BOSTON ''Matisse in the Studio.'' An exploration of this path-blazing artist's creativity unites 36 paintings and 50 other artworks with the textiles, pitchers, masks and other objects he [...]

Byline: JUDITH H. DOBRZYNSKI PHILADELPHIA -- Applause and cheers broke out at the soon-to-open Museum of the American Revolution here on Friday when its centerpiece, a fragile, 10-foot-tall elliptical tent, [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- Applause and cheers broke out at the soon-to-open Museum of the American Revolution here on Friday when its centerpiece, a fragile, 10-foot-tall elliptical tent, was finally erected. The [...]

How to get people interested in art? How to engage millennials? How to expose permanent-collection works that sit in storage? These are questions art museums constantly ponder. Recently, Tate Britain [...]

For six days beginning on Oct. 21, visitors to the crenelated, fortresslike Park Avenue Armory will find its 19th-century interior transformed into a light, modern setting. Translucent scrims will obscure [...]

If, on the night of Feb. 20, Lynne Ambrosini had emptied a champagne flute a few times and then triumphantly thrown it into a fire, anyone who knows her would [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMID-ATLANTICGreek Bounty, From Marble to Gold NEW YORK ''Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World.'' This international loan exhibition reveals the profound legacy of Greek civilization through [...]

One afternoon in December, the Arts of Korea Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was abuzz, as dignitaries from the South Korean government inspected the display, while members of [...]

Early last month, the Denver Art Museum raised the curtain on ''Super Indian: Fritz Scholder, 1967-1980,'' an exhibition featuring about 40 colorful, rarely seen artworks by a controversial figure who [...]

If you've always thought the line about ''four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie'' was a bit of nonsense children's verse, an exhibition now at the J. Paul Getty [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe frenzy begins in days. Between Wednesday, Nov. 4, and Friday, Nov. 13, Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips will auction hundreds of Impressionist, Modern and contemporary artworks worth -- they [...]

The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will soon announce major purchases that fill gaps in its collection and fulfill its mission to include more women in the canon of [...]

Sotheby's is teaming up with the rapper Drake in an exhibition of contemporary works by black American artists on sale at this auction house's New York headquarters from April 28 [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDHere's a sampling of promising exhibitions around the country this spring. Northeast BOSTON ''Arlene Shechet: All at Once.'' The first museum survey of art by this sculptor, who specializes [...]

When the cosmetics magnate Leonard A. Lauder was trying to decide which museum should inherit his $1 billion collection of Cubist art, he asked those he was considering how they [...]

Byline: JUDITH H. DOBRZYNSKI As the granddaughter of the Baron and Baroness Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild of the banking and collecting dynasty, Bettina Burr recalls being mesmerized by one [...]

As the granddaughter of the Baron and Baroness Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild of the banking and collecting dynasty, Bettina Burr recalls being mesmerized by one of the couple's storied [...]

Perugino's Collegio del Cambio frescoes in Perugia, Italy, are described as breathtakingly beautiful and harmonious. Painted in the late 1400s, these frescoes depict lyrical and allegorical images of ancient and religious figures from both the Old and New Testaments. The room is considered one of the finest 15th-century secular rooms in Italy and has never been altered. Perugino's work in the Audience Hall of the Palace of the Priors showcases his talent and artistic mastery. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses an exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery titled "Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression." The exhibition explores the works of Norwegian artist Edvard Munch and German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who both experienced mental illness and created art during troubled times. The exhibition showcases their woodcuts, etchings, and lithographs, highlighting their experimental techniques and emotional content. The article emphasizes that the exhibition is not depressing but rather thought-provoking, offering viewers an opportunity to assess the artists' techniques and explore themes of death, illness, urban alienation, and more. The exhibition concludes with a display of landscapes, suggesting that art may have been therapeutic for the artists. [Extracted from the article]