Paintings

What’s the Best Way to Learn Painting? Just Start!

Inspired by master paintings, artist Dinuk Magammana began painting from imagination.

Allison Ramirez | December 9, 2015

Artist Jenny Doh talks on the happy + sad things that inspire her work.

Allison Ramirez | December 3, 2015

How painters depicted darkness even as the world embraced artificial light

Jane Brox | November 19, 2015

Prussian blue changed it all.

John Griswold | November 5, 2015

13 gorgeous frames from the Golden Age of French frame-making.

Cézanne’s watercolors changed European art forever.

Christopher Lloyd | September 21, 2015

How to hang a frame.

Steve Saldivar | September 15, 2015

Why Renaissance artists rendered sacred bodies beautiful and erotic.

Aimee Ng | September 10, 2015

Kids and adults work together to create giant still lifes teeming with flowers, fruit, and insects.

Val Tate | September 4, 2015

A chance discovery within an Andrea del Sarto panel.

Julian Brooks | September 3, 2015

A hidden Rembrandt is revealed.

Annelisa Stephan | September 1, 2015

What is it like to be a panel paintings conservator?

Sara Mateu | August 18, 2015