Re “Gaza Cease-Fire Begins, Israel Says, as Thousands Return to the North” (news article, nytimes.com, Oct. 10): All the breaking news media segments with champagne corks popping and people dancing in ...

For years, a professor has assigned her students to spend three hours with an artwork. A reporter tried this “immersive attention” experiment with a Velázquez masterpiece. Credit... Supported by By ...

Perched in a quiet corner of central Kuala Lumpur’s new behemoth The Exchange TRX mall is Las Meninas. The Spanish restaurant is awash in bright, festive hues and has a lively bar area that segues ...

The 17th-century portrait Las Meninas (1656), or “The Maids of Honor,” is universally regarded as Diego Velázquez’s magnum opus, and perhaps the single greatest existing expression of classical ...

In 1984, American John Brealey restored the best-known work of Spanish painting, Velázquez's Las Meninas, not without controversy. Exactly 40 years later, the Prado remembers that pivotal moment. To ...

In 1984, after a conversation between then-prime minister of Spain Felipe González and Javier Solana, who was the culture minister at the time, permission was granted to restore Diego Velázquez’s 1656 ...

Thirteen bronze women in wide pannier skirts stand single file in St. Mark’s Square in central Venice. The large-scale installation is the work of Spanish artist Manolo Valdés and on view for the 60th ...

Some works of art are so beautiful and suggestive that they have inspired creators of all origins throughout history to make their own reinterpretations. This need to confront what is most sublime ...

In total, only five female Sternritter have been presented in the Bleach series, but the five of them – collectively known as the Bambies – made an impact and are among the most popular Quincy in the ...

Art has the ability to cheer us up, to entertain and to provoke new ideas, but it also has the power to create real change in the world. Pablo Picasso once even went so far as to declare, “Painting is ...