Before you head into "Luis Melendez: Master of the Spanish Still Life," a show now in the East Building of the National Gallery, you should visit the West Building's permanent collection. Look for ...

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

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 ...

The Enlightenment yields at least one inarguable fact: It was the first real age of mass media. Printing technology, especially in color, advanced quickly throughout Europe in the 18th century.

Installation view of ‘Awaken: A Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward Enlightenment’ featuring Tsherin Sherpa's ‘Luxation 1’ (2016) Photo: David De Armas/Rubin Museum of Art.

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 ...

BECOMING A WOMAN IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT: FRENCH ART FROM THE HORVITZ COLLECTION Friday, Feb. 9, 6–9 p.m., free Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill www.ackland.org Though it focuses on the ...

A new exhibition, the biggest German arts project in China to date, opens to the public at what claims to be the biggest museum in the world, the recently renovated National Museum in Beijing. The ...