There is light coming from the right-hand side, going above the figures, which makes the painting feel melancholic and sad. I think the artist wanted to express that this is not where you take ...

In Tran Nguyen’s delicate portraits in acrylic and colored pencil, spirited subjects coexist with ethereal environments.

In an excerpt from his new book “Paris in Ruins,” critic Sebastian Smee breaks down the charged, extravagantly expressive portraits between the painters Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet.

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Over the summer, New Jersey musician James Dalton debuted Harmonica Lesson – The Show in Europe. No stranger to performing ...

A cement Jesus is lost in melancholy meditation. This is one of America’s great art installations, and it’s free to anyone who can find it. And it’s just one of 10 remarkable outsider art ...

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When the editors of “The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry” made Seamus Heaney their star attraction in 1982 with 20 poems—British poetry, please note—they obtained permission ...

The enormous appeal of the series rests in part on Jackson’s melancholy gallantry set against ... Jackson investigating a stolen Renaissance painting once in the possession of the late Mrs ...

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