“Someone we featured a lot is Abla Kamel, who is featured at the centre of the display, standing on a balcony,” says Abd el ...

The much-anticipated Met Costume Institute exhibition, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style," opens to the public May 10.

The 1979 Met Gala theme was a lesson in European history and fashion. The show presented more than 150 costumes, uniforms, ...

Much of what we know about individual Roman emperors comes from what they chose to build. In the 1st century CE, Nero was ...

This spring, one of London’s important auction houses, Sotheby’s, will present “Preparing Coffee”, a long-lost painting by ...

A recently rediscovered painting by 19th-century Ottoman painter Osman Hamdi Bey sold for 1 million pounds ($1.3 million) at ...

A recently rediscovered painting by 19th-century Ottoman painter Osman Hamdi Bey sold for £1 million ($1.3 million) at a ...

A market-fresh Orientalist scene by John Frederick Lewis (1804-76), unseen in public for a generation, led the latest sale of 19th Century and British Impressionist Art at Bonhams.

An unassuming Tudor hunting lodge in the Cumbrian district in the U.K. just gave up a wild secret: rare wall paintings from the 16th century that depict a host of truly fantastical beasts.

Pink and blue, along with other pastels, emerged as popular colors for babies in the mid-19th century, but it took time for their status as gender signifiers to be confirmed. In June 1918 ...

By adopting Western artistic technique to depict Eastern subjects, Hamdi Bey not only responded to the growing 19th-century market for Orientalist art but also used his deep understanding of Muslim ...

By adopting Western artistic technique to depict Eastern subjects, Hamdi Bey not only responded to the growing 19th-century market for Orientalist art but also used his deep understanding of ...