Teams of volunteer decorators spent nearly three weeks transforming the rooms of Körner’s Folly’s to resemble masterpieces by ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- A provocative new show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, "Exposed: The Victorian Nude," challenges conventional ideas about Victorian prudery by establishing that the nude was ...

In the Book of Genesis, God strikes down Onan, the second son of Judah, for the crime of masturbating. In Velvet Rage, Flaming Youth, and the Gift of Desperation, a show by artist duo McDermott & ...

If you ever run into artist Richard Rosvall, there's a good chance he'll be wearing a dark bowler hat with handmade goggles of wood, leather and lenses set on the brim. It's a bit of an "Around the ...

There is plenty of uncovered flesh but not much nakedness in the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s Exposed: The Victorian Nude, a survey of the ways in which the Victorians corseted the nude in moral precepts ...

Until the end of this year, the Manchester Art Gallery exhibition Painting Light and Hope is showing 36 paintings of forgotten Victorian artist Annie Louisa Swynnerton (1844-1933), a native of the ...

London: What's the best way to erase an ex-lover from your life? As Victorian artist William Holman Hunt found, painting over her is a good start. His portrait of this pre-Raphaelite beauty did not ...

Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti's had a major obsession with wombats. He had one as a pet named "Top" that ran around outside of his home. Wombats became a focal point of his artwork, ...

Book Description: Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer by John Paul M. Kanwit examines the development of specialized art commentary in a period when art education became a national concern in ...

In Victorian London, the Chelsea neighborhood was the premiere address for anyone with creative ambitions: poets, writers, including Mark Twain and Henry James, and painters gravitated there, creating ...

TIM BARRINGER Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain New Haven: Yale University Press, for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2005. 392 pp.; 33 color ills., 113 b/ w. $65.00 ...

Wanna play at a Victorian regional All-Ages tour? Well, we’ve got just the opportunity for you! triple j Unearthed has teamed up with The Push for an All-Ages Tour presented by ALWAYS LIVE. Stopping ...