Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix sought to understand the era he called "the century of unbelievable things"

The media treats the Renoir Sucks at Painting movement as a joke, but it has serious, important political critiques

Studies reveal it's more than just a matter of memory. A look at what the science of recall can teach us

The former president has won over many former critics, even on the left. Here's why you shouldn't believe the hype

In a presidential field full of cranks, crackpots and demagogues, Louisiana's governor is one of the worst

Boris Eldagsen spoke to Salon about using an AI-generated contest win to start a conversation about "promptography"

Inspired by an offensive painting, the conservative radio and TV host tried to sell a doll soaked in fake urine

The journal that published the works shut down, pulled the issue from stores and dissolved its editorial board

A man posing as an art patron stole a $150,000 Salvador Dali painting from a Manhattan gallery

I think about art all the time, I've won awards, I've gotten praise, but I'm afraid making art is selfish

Mike Leigh's subtle, lovely film about revolutionary painter J.M.W. Turner requires patience -- and rewards it

Camille Paglia talks about why Hitchcock has more to do with Madonna than he does with pomo theorists.

In 1961, an elderly Brit went on trial for stealing Goya's Duke of Wellington painting to protest paying for TV

Filmmaker Benjamin Ree spoke to Salon about the three-year process of filming his two subjects and ethical choices

A timeless painting by Italian painter Giorgio Chirico takes on new resonance