Hold on, Voltaire! The Cleveland Museum of Art is diving into the Age of Enlightenment with its latest gallery exhibition. We talk to the curator of "Imagination in the Age of Reason" about its ...

Melendez's dates matter: They make him a child of the new Enlightenment, where "divine" light has become a physical phenomenon (Newton had shown how it could be broken down) and every living thing ...

Art of the Enlightenment 11/30/2010 Presenting works and ideas from the Enlightenment period, the exhibition unveils the visual world of the western pre-modern era. Despite cultural differences ...

ART REVIEW Harvard Art Museums examines the power of print in the Enlightenment era Ambitious exhibition ‘Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment’ captures the first real ...

A famous US Revolutionary-era building -- lone-surviving testament to an Enlightenment ideal -- has a hidden West African face, archaeologists have discovered. Their excavation at Maryland's 1785 ...

Though it focuses on the eighteenth century, there could hardly be a timelier exhibit than Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment, which opened at UNC’s Ackland Art Museum last week and ...

It centers on art from the European Enlightenment - and happens to be housed in a museum located right next to Tiananmen Square, site of the pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989.