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Bodhisattva Maitreya, Pakistan, ancient region of Gandhara, circa 3rd century

The Art of Enlightenment

Buddhist sculpture is a rich field for collecting and contemplation.

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Fabergé firm (Russian), Imperial Peter the Great Easter Egg, 20th century

A Fabergé Trove Comes Home

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts reinstalls its massive collection of Fabergé objects after a world tour.

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Jean-Pierre Vitrac for Verre Lumiere, Flower Lamp, 1970

Let There Be Light

Today’s best lighting designs are really sculptures that illuminate.

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Walter Quirt, Shipwrecked, 1943

The Return of Walter Quirt

An important American painter, nearly forgotten for decades, is being rediscovered.

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Steven Assael, Passengers, 2009

Getting Real

A show at the Delaware Art Museum presents the many modes of contemporary realist painting.

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Edgar Degas, A Cotton Office in New Orleans, 1873

The Painter of Modern Life

Aristocratic and conservative in his tastes and opinions, Edgar Degas was a revolutionary in art.

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Sam Gilliam, Bursting, 1972

Out of Frame

By folding, creasing, and ultimately draping his canvases, Sam Gilliam brought color abstraction closer to the viewer than any artist before him.

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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child Blessing

Life and Light

Venetian Renaissance painting is as distinctively beautiful as the city that nurtured it.

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Russian Group 2006 - 7 #7

Go With the Flow

The late Marvin Lipofsky was there at the birth of the American studio glass movement, shaping its course as he shaped his own sculptures.

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