Otero’s images of water and disaster mirror the wreckage of Hurricane Maria as well as the devastation of COVID-19.

Empty Frames As Potent Symbols. March 1990 was a nightmare for Anne Hawley. She had just started her job as museum director at the Gardner when thieves brazenly assaulted the art-filled Venetian ...

Two abstract paintings vanished from the Healing Center on St. Claude Avenue recently, leaving behind empty frames and a video of the apparent theft. Now, while the artist and the center's ...

Hammershoi died in 1916, aged only 52. He lived with his wife as a near recluse, painting only a few pictures a year. Many of these show the interior of the couple's neat, clean flat at Strandgade ...

Most museum- or gallery-goers wouldn't be surprised to encounter a diorama showing a scene from history or the natural world. A diorama portraying the security area in an airport or the counter of ...

Walter Gay spent more than 40 years painting empty rooms. It sounds creatively impotent and vaguely comic, like something out of “Zelig” or P.G. Wodehouse, but in practice it turns out to be ...

Art exhibitions without exhibits are nothing new. Nothing has been a recognised art form for half a century. But the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris can claim a cultural first this week: a ...