Art Collections & Exhibitions

New Series MFA Highlights presents the best of the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in a new series of accessible, uniform paperback...

Renowned for creating art outdoors and from natural materials, British artist Andy Goldsworthy here offers an inside look at an intriguing project....

Everyone is busy preparing for the festival of Sukkot-everyone, that is, except Mr. Levy. Then, a mysterious wind and some friendly neighbors chang...

The art of creating images so perfect that the viewer thinks they are real is introduced, with many historical & contemporary examples. (Best B...

Each year the museums in the United States attract more visitors than either movies or sports. This volume explores the ways museum exhibits shape ...

In 1990, at a star-studded auction, a painting was sold for the astonishing price of $82.5 million?a record-breaking price. That painting, Portrait...

An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a sing...

Generous sampling of Dor's magnificent illustrations for Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, including all 60 original full-page illustrations and ...

Readers can experience closeness to God like never before with these 30 everyday activities that become "God moments." Journal thoughts, questions,...

The Society of Children's Book Illustrators sponsored an exhibition (Oct.-Nov. 1992, New York City) of winners and finalists in the judging of the ...

Everyone is busy preparing for the festival of Sukkot-everyone, that is, except Mr. Levy. Then, a mysterious wind and some friendly neighbors chang...

In a unique collaboration, The Breast Cancer Fund, the American Cancer Society, and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation invited artists and...

Voices in Clay is a dialogue between working Pueblo potters and the pottery made by their ancestors between 1880 and 1940. Three traditional potter...

We are all born collectors. In childhood we hoard all manner of knick-knacks -- marbles, ribbons, toy soldiers -- and experience an instinctive thr...

Piracy flourished in the early 18th century, producing Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, and Bartholomew Roberts, to name a few. Yet piracy on the high sea...

Weaving together the rich symbolism of the biblical Esther story, stories of contemporary women, and her own story, Marjory Bankson speaks clearly ...

In these 19 insightful and frequently witty meditations, Stephen E. Weil examines the purposes and functions of the museum in the late 20th century...

Sure there's Disney World, the Everglades, and Cape Kennedy, but why do most people visit Florida? For the beaches! Now, "Florida Beaches" provides...

At the Auberge Ravoux, in a tiny artists' village twenty miles from Paris, Postimpressionist painter Vincent van Gogh found a measure of peace in a...

Everyone is busy preparing for the festival of Sukkot-everyone, that is, except Mr. Levy. Then, a mysterious wind and some friendly neighbors chang...