The illustrated books made in Persia and Mughal-ruled India between 1400 and 1700 are “among the greatest manu-scripts ever produced anywhere,” according to Debra Diamond,...

Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific roughly 75 years ago while trying to circumnavigate the globe with co-pilot Frederick J. Noonan. The search for her remains continu...

If you had to name the closest relationship you have with an animal, chances are you’d say “my best friend, Rover” or “the bacon I had for breakfast.” But in many po...

Many viewers were surprised when abstract impressionist painter Barnett Newman first showed his “The Stations of the Cross: Lema Sabachthani” series at New York’s Guggen...

The works in “Richard Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series,” on view through Sept. 23 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, are not exactly representational. The series is named fo...

Most designers setting out to create a ball gown start with paper — to sketch a concept or make a pattern. Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave doesn’t stop there. For th...

At Arena Stage in Southwest, panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt testify to a worldwide crisis that began nearly 30 years ago and a nationwide memorial project that turns 25 thi...

Washington’s newest arts enclave isn’t tucked away in Georgetown, or even on burgeoning H Street. It’s east of the river, in Anacostia. The area — once known as Nacotc...

Jasper Johns broke into the art world in 1958 as a painter. Within two years he had become a printmaker as well. The latter vocation is the focus of “Jasper Johns: Variation...

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been on the conceptual art and architecture scene for decades. His name made international headlines in 2008 when he helped design the distinctive...

At one point in his prolific career, painter and sculptor Joan Miro had a soft spot for long titles: Take 1939’s “Woman Stabbed by the Sun Reciting Rocket Poems in the Geo...

If you live in a city, you expect a certain amount of your life to be lived on the stage of the street. Six photographers translate that idea into art in the National Gallery ...

It’s Artomatic time again! This year, the D.C. area’s biggest unjuried arts extravaganza runs for five weeks and fills a gigantic former Department of Defense building in ...

In the 1930s and ’40s, photographer Harry Warnecke was a sort of emissary from the full-color future. His work revealed to ordinary people what their black-and-white heroes ...

Take a global tour without leaving town at this year’s Passport D.C. On Saturday, more than 40 embassies will welcome visitors at open-house celebrations to kick off a month...