Now, I don't like to play favorites, especially when talking about great artists, but between these two views of St. Mark's Square in...

Water, an essential of life on this planet, has never been easy to deal with. We take it for granted until we either don't have enough or...

Living in the South of France, painting and studying art history, I easily assumed that every museum would have a Van Gogh. I mean they...

Well, it's St. Patrick's Day, and when I look at the work of the best-selling painter of Irish descent, whose Three Studies of Lucian...

She, Rindy Sam, a Cambodian-French artist, told the court it was an act of love. She might have done better to have called it a crime of...

I certainly did not know what to expect when I wandered out of the Rothko room at the Tate Modern in London. After communing with those...

Perhaps someone can explain to me how it is that the 15th century Flemish and Netherlandish painters can be called Primitives. I don't...

I can only describe it as extremely frustrating to have mapped out a route through the narrow streets of Venice only to find myself...

One lovely summer morning in Rome, lovely because the it was not yet time for the blast furnace of the Roman summer afternoon, I came...

"DAVID IS NOT HERE," read the crudely printed sign plastered to the side of the Accademia, along with a red arrow pointing in the...

We have all seen it. It's that light that comes only near twilight in the evening, a varying mixture of gray and blue-violet that makes...

Only Mark Rothko would be cheeky enough to sum up J.M.W. Turner's career in a New York Minute by saying, "This man Turner, he learnt a...

I knew that Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was a seminal painting in the history of art, the dividing line between modern art and...

Jazz. As I dreamily awoke this morning, I heard the last strains of a beautiful jazz piece called Rhythm (at least, that's the name in...