Peter Saenger

Visions of Watery Venice

Shostakovich’s Vibrant Valediction

In the 1980s, the artist captivated America with a visual vocabulary inspired by comic strips and graffiti.

A new exhibition at London’s National Gallery shows how Francis of Assisi has inspired artists from the Middle Ages to the present.

A new exhibition at California’s Norton Simon Museum explores the way artists find meaning in food.

A new exhibition spotlights the painter’s eerie, transcendent visions of New York.

England’s Tudor kings and queens used art to enhance their power and reputation.

Illustrations from the Middle Ages depicting fanciful beasts and heroic quests have been inspiring artists for centuries.

Since the 1960s, the photographer has been documenting the American West in all its natural glory and human-made eeriness.

In his late work, the painter turned his back on abstraction and developed a new vocabulary of mysteriously charged symbols.

Since the Renaissance, anatomical illustration has served art and science by examining how we look beneath the skin.

With a style of “weeping realism” often based on photos, California-based Hung Liu evokes the crucible of China’s Cultural Revolution.

A new exhibition shows how the ruling Medici family used artworks as propaganda in the 16h century.

The new exhibition “Supernatural America” features artworks full of occult symbols and paranormal experiences.

The museum’s new early American galleries highlight the turbulence and vitality of the biggest city in colonial America.

Artist Alexis Rockman creates vividly realistic pictures of doomed vessels from history and mythology.

Redesigned galleries at New York’s Metropolitan Museum showcase four centuries of decorative art.

In the U.S. and around the world, the movement of peoples has been documented in works of art.