The figure of Mansa Musa looms at the center of a major new exhibition, "Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time," that recently opened at the Block Museum of Art in Evanston, Illinois.

The US Constitution is not often Broadway fare—and for good reason: its place is in the National Archives, not Times Square.

"Black Models: From Géricault to Matisse," at the Musée d’Orsay, builds on archival research to recover the biographies of models of African descent in canonical French painting.

Dora Maar’s largest exhibition in France contains over 400 of her works, yet she turns away, and hides her face, remaining enigmatic in her work.

Francesco Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli, back by popular demand, a retrospective of Iran's great filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, and a short series of long epics at BAM.

Sections of “Van Gogh and Britain” display homages to—or arguments with—Vincent by a dozen British artists, from Walter Sickert to Francis Bacon.

Nearly a half-century later, Peter Brook’s "A Midsummer Night's Dream" still hangs heavy over British theatre. Nicholas Hytner, who ran London’s state-subsidized National Theatre for twelve years until 2015 and is now the impresario of the Bridge Theatre, his own commercial theater complex opposite the Tower of London, has chosen to tackle Brook’s legacy head on.

The earliest painting that survives from Jodhpur shows the unmistakable stamp of Mughal realism and artistic refinement. This only intensified during the period of Mughal collapse, as the courts offered generous patronage to painters left unemployed at the Mughal court.

The problem with nasty Bouguereau was that it didn’t sell. The problem with nice Bouguereau was that it sold so well that it undermined the intermittent impulse to unleash nasty Bouguereau.

While it should be possible for someone looking at Pat Steir's paintings to feel that they depict or suggest the flowing of water downward over rock or stone, that is to miss the point of works that are concerned much more with the potential of paint than the need to represent something in nature.