CNN  —  Each year, over one million people visit Neuschwanstein, a 19th-century castle in the Bavarian alps, famous for its Romanesque Revival style and Gothic details, including vertical limestone towers and turrets topped with deep blue pointed roofs. Once home to a famously introverted Bavarian monarch known as “the fairytale king,” the idyllic architecture –

Walt Disney landed in France just days after the first world war ended. The 16-year-old was working as a driver for the Red Cross and spent nine months touring the country, stationed in outposts including the outskirts of Versailles and the Hôtel Régina (opposite the Louvre). When he was not shuttling military officials around or

Why have Jewish art dealers been so pivotal in creating the European art market as we know it? That is the question that an online symposium organised by London Art Week (from today until 10 December) will delve into. “Jewish Dealers and the European Art Market c.1850-1930” will run over three evenings, starting with Charles

Artists in India have weaved an amalgamation of expressive visual culture. The Pre-Independence period in India witnessed artists developing contemporary styles. The colonial rule encouraged engagement between traditional and modern techniques. Painters recognised the demand for this hybrid visual format and delineated images, suggesting encounters with various geographical, social and cultural distinctions in the state.

Works by nineteenth-century artists, including Van Gogh, Courbet, Monet, and many others, remain on view in our galleries dedicated to European Paintings after 1800 (galleries 800–830). Seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are displayed in In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met, on view through September 2023 in the Robert Lehman Wing. The exhibition unites Dutch paintings

The mouse is heading to the Met. The New York museum is preparing to host its first-ever exhibition about Disney hand-drawn animation. The show which will trace the influence of European art on the man and his studio. Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts, which runs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

As of April 30, the Portland Art Museum is without a curator of European Art. I conducted an exit interview with the previous curator, Dawson Carr, in late March and wrote up a farewell article. I thoroughly enjoyed our conversation, which ranged from the history of the Portland Art Museum’s collections to the future fate

Ticketing available soon: www.diversity-united.com While the world is fully consumed by the fight against the pandemic, central themes and concerns of Diversity United—freedom and globalization, the corrosion of democracy, (fear of) the future, solidarity and divisiveness—are more urgent than ever before.  At a time of global helplessness and an increasing loss of confidence in politics, art

The beautiful art in the Sistine Chapel includes anti-Semitic imagery. Photo: Jean-Luc Petit / Gamma-Rapho / Getty Images / Jean-Luc Petit / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images I love old dead white guy art so much, I got a Ph.D. in the subject. But even though I adore the Sistine Chapel and the sumptuous oils of

The Holocaust Records Preservation Project Summer 2002, Vol. 34, No. 2 By Anne Rothfeld   Dormant bank accounts, transfers of gold, and unclaimed insurance policies, all taken by the Nazis and hidden primarily in Swiss bank accounts during World War II, are now the subject of economic and financial research. Museums and galleries are researching