To give art or an antique is to provide more than an object. It is to offer a story, an aesthetic judgment, and a piece of ...

This stately Georgian home in Washington, D.C., is filled to the brim with art. But its owners may be hard-pressed to describe the artworks' visual qualities. "They're not beautiful," said Aaron ...

“Red,” the Tony Award-winning play by John Logan about the meaning of art, is really about the meaning of life. Four times the question is asked, “What do you see?” And ultimately the answer is, “What ...

What is art? How do we define art? What is art? How do we define art? In this episode, we explore some of the many ways that artists and writers and thinkers have defined and understood this thing we ...

Marcel Duchamp by Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1968 Promised gift of Barbara and Aaron Levine Hirshhorn, Cathy Carver © Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists ...

The great writer G. K. Chesterton delighted in paradoxes, those apparent contradictions that point to a deeper truth. Sometimes, however, the paradoxes are so shocking to our senses or our ...

Ephemeral Acts,” a video art exhibition at the Thoma Foundation’s Art Vault, is more about acts than ephemerality. The work ...

JoAnne Klimovich Harrop Monday, May 16, 2022 3:43 p.m. | Monday, May 16, 2022 3:43 p.m. The people in these images truly are men and women of steel. They are individuals who labored to create the ...

Last week, somewhere between reports on Vince Foster and O.J. Simpson, the Tribune carried an account of a discovery that “has sparked an international argument on the origin of art.” Archeologists ...