In the late 1870s, banker and art collector William Corcoran commissioned larger-than-life Carrara marble sculptures of some of the world’s best-known artists to decorate the second-story niches of ...

The historic downtown Ormond Beach will host “Art Imitates Life” in November. It will be a display of 13 hyper-realistic bronze statues from the late American artist Seward Johnson. The sculptures ...

Carving Out History” offers the career highlights of Emma Stebbins, from the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park — a powerful ...

Over the years, a conservator replaced the headgear on deer with real antlers and the originals mounted on moose with synthetic alternatives. Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images During Fred ...

The gardens of the Palace of Versailles were, in essence, an exorbitant vanity project. Over four decades, Louis XIV commissioned the era’s finest artists to create what remains the world’s largest ...

In 1876, Frederick Douglass addressed a crowd of some 25,000 people gathered to dedicate a new monument to Abraham Lincoln. The Emancipation Memorial statue, a life-size bronze also known as the ...

Outside, the afternoon heat has given way to the cool evening air. Bats swirl among the towering palm and baobab trees on the lawn of the Douta Seck cultural center in the bustling Medina neighborhood ...

Europe is a place for art lovers. Whether you are drawn toward modern and contemporary art or prefer classical styles more ...