“Beyond Blue and White” taps into what every collector of antiques knows to be true: The decorative arts are more than mere objects where beauty meets function—they are the tactile messengers of ...

For the first time in three centuries, Johannes Vermeer’s The Guitar Player has been placed alongside its long-disputed ...

One of the artist’s most famous paintings is being exhibited alongside its “twin,” reigniting a century-old debate about who painted the latter.

Double Vision brings together two paintings, both known as The Guitar Player. One painting, a treasure from Kenwood’s Iveagh Bequest, is signed by the great Johannes Vermeer (1632-75). The origin of ...

The serene atmosphere of Kenwood House in Hampstead, home to one of the finest small collections of paintings in London, has this week been rudely interrupted by a gathering storm about the ...

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The measure now moves to the state Senate. After a long day of debate, the Texas House of Representatives passed a Republican-favored congressional map Wednesday evening that could flip five districts ...

“I know how difficult it is. Everyone wants your Vermeer.” So said Axel Rüger, the director of the Frick Collection, when thanking the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum ...

Also discovered is that the woman now seated in the doorway is a mirrored copy of the figure he at first placed at the alley’s entrance to the alley to the left of the house. These new findings add to ...

Johannes Vermeer, Mistress and Maid, ca. 1664-67; oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 31 in. Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr., coutesy of the Frick Collection A woman sits on the right, clad in a fur-trimmed yellow coat, ...

Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (TU Delft) is a modern university with a rich tradition. With approximately 27,000 students, TU Delft is the largest university of technology in the ...

So today I'll be making test tube liquid rockets. I first need a really strong oxidizer and I'm using pure nitric acid. Now all I need to do is all a fuel to it, and I'm using something called aniline ...