Line, shape, space, form, tone, texture, pattern, color, and composition are combined and organized in various ways to create what we know as paintings, but that process is often lost on the viewer.

The Whatcom Museum is opening a new exhibit this month, featuring French paintings on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Bellingham’s Whatcom Museum was chosen as one of 10 ...

The first time the French filmmaker and scholar Mame-Fatou Niang encountered “L’histoire en Peinture de l’Assemblée Nationale,” a large painting hanging in the National Assembly in Paris, she was ...

The paintings speak for themselves in the companion shows opening Sunday at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. No fancy graphics, interactive playrooms or explanatory videos plump out the space, aside ...