An exhibit of paintings by Ringling College professor Joe Fig are a study of museum patrons really looking at paintings by ...

Joe Fig chairs Ringling College of Arts and Design’s fine arts and visual studies programs. He’s also an art instructor, and he teaches what he does. Fig paints, constantly. His paintings ...

Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients for a juicy controversy. This may be why eye-rolling and schadenfreude emerge so virulently whenever said ...

Vermeer’s oeuvre may be slim—only 35 surviving works are widely attributed to the Dutch painter—but it casts a long shadow. Little is known of the artist himself, so much so he was dubbed ...

F. N. Souza, Willem de Kooning, and Amrita Sher-Gil were among the figures examined in-depth this year. Vilhelm Hammershøi, Double Portrait of the Artist and His Wife, Seen through a Mirror.

Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients for a juicy controversy. This may be why ...

When you stand in front of Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl With The Pearl Earring,” something extraordinary happens in your brain. The 17th-century Dutch painting has long mesmerized viewers, but ...

Most of us have whiled away a pleasant afternoon browsing the impressionists at the Museum of Fine Arts, or pausing between portraits to appreciate the garden at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.