In the shadow of Disneyland’s fantasy kingdom sits a different kind of magical realm where the treasures are real and the prices won’t make your credit card weep. The Anaheim Thrift Store stands as a ...

A tattoo on the wrist of a wealthy merchant in a 17th-century group portrait is the only one ever found in depictions from that era and may well be the oldest in Dutch painting, experts from the ...

What makes art art? Is it the method or the creator? Does it need a color palette and oil paints, or a canvas laid flat on the floor and paint splattered across it? Does it require a critically ...

Akzo Nobel NV agreed to acquire smaller rival paint maker Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. in a deal that will create a US-listed leader with combined annual sales of almost $17 billion. Under the ...

At first glance, the act of pouring paint across a canvas looks wild. Paint drops through the air, twists with each motion of the wrist, and splashes into tangled paths that seem to follow no plan.

CHICAGO — I recently visited an exhibition at Water Street Studios in Batavia, about 40 miles West from the center of Chicago — the equivalent, say, of driving halfway across Long Island from ...