The Chrysler Museum of Art has acquired a painting that might seem, on the face of it, to be a portrait of its chief benefactor. Idelle Weber’s “Mr. Chrysler” is a silhouette of a seated man in a suit ...

Kai Ryssdal: Most of us are distressingly familiar with the phrase “bubble” by now. We’ve had two of ’em in just the past 10 years: dot-coms and housing. But there was another one earlier this decade, ...

Obeying the occult rules of what’s “in,” decorous little teen-aged girls from fashionable Manhattan schools must this spring climb, white-sneakered, to the top spiral of the Guggenheim Museum.

Oklahoma City-based artist Brent Learned, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, is known for his colorful, impressionistic portrayals of the Plains Indian way of life. He ...

One clue in the show is that just before he made the rag-painted abstractions, Lichtenstein made a series of drawings that combined free-flowing Abstract-Expressionist gestures with images of Bugs ...

American Dream House founder Molly Rosner recalls the controversy her pop art paintings used to arouse at her alma mater, Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. “Critiques during finals always ...

Central Perk remains one of the most memorable hangouts in TV history. And while the famed orange couch was a fixture throughout the series, observant fans will note the changing artwork hanging in ...

When George Washington crossed the Delaware River to ambush enemy soldiers in the Battle of Trenton, nobody was on hand to portray his masterful tactical maneuver. The famous depiction hanging in the ...