Art News

In 2013 The British Museum broadcast live from its blockbuster exhibition Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum. This 90 minute broadcast presented by Bettany Hughes and Peter Snow includes interviews with Rachel De Thame, Giorgio Locatelli and Mary Beard.

Join a Met curator to explore artworks in The Met collection that relate to healing and magic in ancient Egypt.

The new Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts (MCBA) in Lausanne is ushering in an exciting new era of arts programming in the lakeside Swiss city.

Abstract art is easy to dismiss, but what can we learn about art and ourselves when we take a closer look? This is a conversation between several art experts as they try to answer that question. They specifically discuss abstract art from Art Institute of Chicago's collection.

Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence since 2015, recently bemoaned the fact that so many great works of religious art are languishing in museum storage.

A conversation with Dr. David Landau, Dr. Marcella Ansaldi, Director of the Jewish Museum of Venice, and Dr. Steven Zucker while walking through the German Synagogue (founded 1528), the Italian Synagogue (founded 1575), the Canton Synagogue (1532), and the Jewish Museum, Venice.

To learn about any culture, one of our greatest resources is its art, and America is no exception.

Emily Jacobson works as a paper conservator at the Freer and Sackler. In this video, Emily explains how to study and conserve gold used in Islamic manuscripts, such as Qur'ans found in our collections.

Experience the Picasso and Paper exhibition from your own home in this video tour of the galleries, created before the Royal Academy had to close its doors due to coronavirus.

This May, legendary American artist Jasper Johns celebrates his 90th birthday, an opportune time to reflect on his legacy as well as his impact on the art world.