"Finally, we are on the third floor near the attic, and we find a stack of paintings, and in it is this beautiful portrait of a young woman by Rembrandt." The painting of a teenage girl in a black ...

From the most to least famous, these are ten great paintings dedicated to ancient Greek myths or containing references to them. 1. The Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli, the great Italian painter of ...

Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients for a juicy controversy. This may be why eye-rolling and schadenfreude emerge so virulently whenever said ...

Simeon Brown: “I’ve enjoyed sharing in our community’s Christmas spirit with recent events like the Howick Santa Parade and the Christmas Fair and am always encouraged by the kindness and generosity ...

Simeon Boikov, who is holed up in the Russian embassy in Sydney, tells The Australian he’s ready to be swapped for a Melbourne man captured by Vladimir Putin’s forces in Ukraine. Hours after ...

Vermeer’s oeuvre may be slim—only 35 surviving works are widely attributed to the Dutch painter—but it casts a long shadow. Little is known of the artist himself, so much so he was dubbed ...

The Athletic FC is The Athletic’s daily football (or soccer, if you prefer) newsletter. Sign up to receive it directly to your inbox. Hello. All eyes have been on Barcelona and Real Madrid, but ...

To celebrate the artist’s enduring legacy, we surveyed 10 of Raphael’s most popular paintings (determined by their presence on Google Images, the number of reproductions created, and our own a ...

Anna and Simeon remind us of what it looks like to wait on Jesus amid personal and political upheaval. Holidays have an uncanny way of exposing how messy our lives really are. The juggle of ...

The local government minister says the provisions were leading to rates increases, but Labour says there is no evidence of that. On Monday, Simeon Brown said the government wanted local government to ...