How can the artist's simple portraits and still lifes possibly affect us as deeply as they do?

Twenty-five years after his death, Rahner's works still illuminate.

In this Lenten season, Stanley Spencer's Christ Carrying the Cross seems to transcend its time.

An exhibit on the treasures of Pompeii offers the reconstruction of a whole culture.

Malcolm Miller illumines the Gothic jewel.

When Olafur Eliasson installed his work “The Weather Project” in the Turbine Hall of London’s Tate Modern in winter 2003, more than two million people thronged to see it: a giant golden orb hung at the end of the 500-foot-long hall. Actually it was a semicircular steel frame 50 fee

No painting in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York is more iconic than Paul Cézanne’s “Bather,” the pensive young man walking on water in a spare blue and beige landscape. For decades he greeted visitors in the first room of the earlier museum. He currently pres

The one story that everybody in the theater tells about Jerome Robbins has him angrily giving notes to his dancers in either ldquo West Side Story rdquo or ldquo Billion Dollar Baby rdquo while backing away and then falling into the orchestra pit And no one says a word or makes a move to hel