A long-disputed painting in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, has been officially designated as a work by Vincent van Gogh by leading Dutch researchers. The painting, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looking for an art museum to visit this winter? While Connecticut's neighbor New York is more well-known for its art scene, ...

“The Maze and Snares of Minimalism” (1993) by Carl Andre in front of Alfred Jensen’s “The World As It Really Is” (1977), on view in Rules & Repetition: Conceptual Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Divine Geometry: Islamic Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum” would seem to suggest artwork that is precise, exacting, preordained and ...

Centuries ago, top-flight European hosts set their tables for the dessert course with centerpieces painstakingly fashioned from sugar, sparkling white fantasies—enchanting but utterly inedible due to ...

This exhibition features twenty small-scale ancient bronze sculptures from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, all purchased by the American financier J. Pierpont Morgan between 1904 and 1916 and ...

“Styling Identities: Hair’s Tangled Histories” is one of the headiest, hairiest, neatly styled art exhibitions that the Wadsworth Atheneum has sprouted in years. If it were just a selection of ...

It is difficult, when visiting Hartford today, to imagine that at the end of the nineteenth century this was one of the richest cities—per capita, the richest—in America. Samuel Colt and the ...

It’s clear that glass art has stretched in new directions over the last few decades, taking on new shapes and meanings. A new exhibit at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, “Fired Up: Glass Today,” ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Mr. Zimmer’s interview contained many mistakes, and one glaring misquote, namely, “After Mr. Austin’s Directorate ...

The celebration honors the city's history through the "lenses of film, art, music, culture and technology" and the 250th anniversary of the United States of America, according to its website.