John and Mabel Ringling’s fantasy palazzo in Sarasota is a testament to the romantic power of architecture.
The Shock of the Hue
How the surprising, saturated colors in the turn-of-the-century paintings Matisse and others created in the South of France changed the face of Western art.
On books: Meeting of the Minds
A book series from the Frick Collection pairs scholarly analysis with artistic interpretation.
Eye of the Beholder
In early eighteenth-century Italy, Giacomo Ceruti’s sensitive portraits of the down-and-out turned artistic orthodoxy on its head.
Feast for the Eyes
The food paintings of the seventeenth-century Dutch artist Clara Peeters helped bring the still life into maturity as a genre.
The Many Mysteries of Vermeer
The most intriguing and inscrutable of the Dutch Old Masters is the subject of a can’t-miss exhibition in Amsterdam.
Beacon of Beauty
Looking at the Statue of Liberty not as a symbol, but as a work of art
Cézanne Reconsidered
A pair of recent exhibitions prompts a new look at the eminent French postimpressionist
The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museum, a new book by James Gardner
James Gardner retells and retraces the evolution of one of the world’s most complex architectural palimpsests with elegance, economy, and wit.
Off the Piazza, Another World
Celebrating a Venetian Institution, Caffè Florian at 300.