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Today, John Singer Sargent's 'Portrait of Madame X' is regarded as a brilliant and tasteful depiction of classical beauty and femininity. So it might shock you to learn that when the American artist first unveiled this painting in 1884, all hell broke loo

Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossettiwas talented, tempestuous, and completely obsessed with wombats.

Édouard Manet laced this 1882 masterpiece with mystery, from the ambiguous expression of its central figure to the smoke and mirrors of its execution.

American realist Thomas Eakins earned renown for portraits so true to life they could almost be mistaken for photographs. But his greatest accomplishment was also his most controversial, 1875's The Gross Clinic.

This Jerusalem art installation aims to make the city a brighter place.

“Lossy” blends age-old oil painting techniques with the latest virtual reality technology to illustrate the ways in which the real and the virtual fade into each other—and the results are visually stunning.

'A Marvelous Order' will explore the mid-century battle between the powerful Robert Moses and city activist Jane Jacobs.

In the past 150 years, more than 300 artists have illustrated Lewis Carroll’s classic book.

Professional miniaturists were once relied on to create entire movie scenes in 1/12 scale.

It's still in its original setting, and as huge as ever.

Don't you wish you went to school in one of these multi-hued, modernist paradises?

Tony Orrico's preferred tools of the art-making trade are his very own chompers.