Imagine if you could see the pen Beethoven used to write his Symphony No. 5. Or the chisel Michelangelo used to sculpt his David. Art lovers find endless fascination in the materials of artists — a ...

At the risk of hoarding, here’s a good reason to save stuff. The stuff, that is, of someone who is currently famous or is expected to become so: This week Shelburne Craft School director Sage ...

While admiring the works of Mary Cassatt at the Norton Museum of Art, I could not help but think of Emily Dickinson, her contemporary. True, the latter was a reclusive poet who rarely left her city of ...

AS a painter, Mary Cassatt, an American who showed regularly with the French Impressionists in the late 19th century, has her detractors who complain she wasn't as daring or innovative as her ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — In the 1950s, Beverly Johnson Jaques would visit her “Grammy and Pop Pop” at their home in Greenwich, Conn., where a pastel drawing, "Portrait of Mrs. Cyrus J. Lawrence with her ...