The Metropolitan Museum of Art devotes an enthralling exhibition to the German Romantic painter, who rendered the natural world with bleak yet awe-inspiring beauty.

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

Harold Ridley successfully implanted the world’s first artificial intraocular lens.

The Soul of Nature ,” the Met’s new retrospective of nearly 40 of Friedrich’s paintings and more than 30 of his drawings, marks the 250th year since the artist’s birth in 1774. Much of Friedrich’s ...

Optometrists may not surgically repair macular holes, but they play a crucial role in managing visual outcomes in these ...

The city shared photos of the googly eye installations on social media in early December, saying the adhesives can damage the art. One photo shows googly eyes placed on a sculpture of two deer ...

We take you to sunnier climes in this week’s edition of ‘The Stack’. We look at ‘Greece: The Monocle Handbook’ with its editor, Chiara Rimella. Plus: we discuss ‘In Palma’ with its editor, Iván ...