Week five of the shutdown. The initial dread and diversion has faded. The existential doubt rises up and we wonder about our basic survival—much as the first settlers of New Amsterdam did long ago ...

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I opened the PDF for Dutch Painting expecting to find yet another book about Hals, Rembrandt, and Vermeer— the familiar canonical Dutch figures. No doubt, so I anticipated, the ever-reliable art ...

Art history hardly knew Judith Leyster—that is, until now. Today, 362 years after the Dutch painter’s death, Leyster takes the internet’s stage, featuring in the day’s Google Doodle, the search engine ...

“In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met” is an exhibition well worth seeing, first of all, because it comes to you online, as one cannot see it at the museum for now (due, of course, to ...

Pieter de Hooch, Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room, 1658, detail with fingerprint Courtesy Museum Prinsenhof Delft A sweeping retrospective at the Museum Prinsenhof Delft in the Netherlands has united 29 ...

Jacqueline de Jong, c. 1977 (image courtesy Ortuzar Projects, New York) Dutch painter Jacqueline de Jong, celebrated for her contributions to painterly figuration and for her role in Europe's ...

The painting discovered in the attic of a barn in Connecticut nearly three decades ago was all but impossible to recognize. “It was filthy, black, dirty,” George Wachter, the chairman of Sotheby’s ...

Some historical figures achieve fame and fortune in life. Others owe their success thanks to their untimely deaths. Carel Fabritius, Rembrandt's most promising pupil, falls somewhere in between the ...

“In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met” is an exhibition well worth seeing, first of all, because it comes to you online, as one cannot see it at the museum for now (due, of course, to ...