May marks the start of Haitian Heritage Cultural month, where the community in South Florida and beyond celebrates the culture of Haiti and the founding of its flag on May 18, 1803. Today Arcahaie, ...

Myrlande Constant’s opulent textile art can be so captivating that seeing ... as in the frontal portrait “Jean-Jacques Dessalines” (c. 2017), which portrays the leader of the Haitian ...

Dessalines died by an assassin’s bullet within ... The Lord’s Prayer: “Our Doc who art in the National Palace for Life, hallowed be Thy name by present and future generations, Thy will ...

A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for $13.6 million at auction, setting a new record for a living female artist. “Miss January” is Dumas’ “magnum opus” and stands ...

Diego Rivera was one of 20th Century art's towering figures—the Mexican icon who brought mural art onto the world's biggest stages. On the surface, these facts would seem to be unrelated—but ...

Namely, moving a painting of Jesus out of a basement at the United States Merchant Marine Academy. Duffy made a splashy announcement about the picture just as the Federal Aviation Administration ...

The Spaniard applied free association to the canvas with radical results. When you walk through the galleries of an art museum, it’s evident that the people responsible for all this — the ...

A huge painting by Mark Rothko, thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars, has been removed from display in a Dutch museum after it was damaged by a visiting child. Conservators will now ...

The export bar, which allows time for a UK gallery or institution to acquire the painting, will expire on 8 August. The work is otherwise at risk of leaving the UK, unless a domestic buyer can be ...

A kid in the Netherlands damaged a Mark Rothko painting worth roughly $56 million after he “scratched” it at a Dutch museum, officials said. The child, who hasn’t been identified ...

Think twice about taking children to a museum housing expensive art. Scratch that, maybe just leave them at home. That's arguably the moral of the story after a child reportedly damaged a Mark ...