The Frick’s luminous new show, “Vermeer’s Love Letters,” captures the essence of that lost world. Curator Aimee Ng says it’s ...

Red Grooms gave artist Joe Fig a bit of insight he’s been turning over ever since. The toughest part of artmaking, the pop artist told him, “is that moment where it appears like you are doing the ...

This is an exhibition that encourages, fosters and invites close looking and deep thinking,” Frick curator Aimee Ng said at a ...

Experts have found a hidden jug holder and basket in Dutch master Johannes Vermeer’s famed painting “The Milkmaid” which he later painted over, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum said on September 8 ...

The jewel of the Rijksmuseum’s own Vermeer collection, “The Milkmaid,” is given a room of its own—something the young model who posed for the painting most likely did not enjoy.

Vermeer records every detail of the kitchen: damp plaster on the window wall; the nail and its shadow above the milkmaid’s head; a foot warmer; Delft tiles comprising the floor skirting.

But then we arrive at Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (1657-58) and The Milkmaid (1658-59), and the Vermeer we recognise has arrived. Both women stand isolated in a corner of a room, the ...

I like “The Milkmaid” much more, by the way, than “Girl With a Pearl Earring,” who gets prime position in a gallery of five of Vermeer’s tronies, or imaginary facial studies.

In preparation for the exhibition, the museum has been taking an extremely close look at its own Vermeer paintings, which include ‘The Milkmaid’, reports AP.