The museum's director said that “the problem of visitors coming to museums to make memes or take selfies for social media is rampant.” The tourist was identified and “will be prosecuted".

There was also far less peace during the Golden age of Dutch Baroque art than appears at first glance. Only a couple of decades after the final defeat of the Spanish Habsburgs, the Dutch became ...

Piles of plump cucumbers, juicy watermelons and ripe tomatoes fill the paintings by little-known Spanish artist Luis Melendez to advertise nature’s bounty.

When art conservators in the United Kingdom were cleaning a 17th-century Dutch seascape, they found a surprise: an image of a beached whale that had been hidden for at least 150 years.