Goya's paintings range from bright and cheerful scenes depicting the everyday lives of the Spanish to strange, sinister, and disturbing works—the "black paintings" of his last period. Between the...

An exceptional event was held at the Grand Palais in the fall of 1994: a major retrospective of the work of painter Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the...

The painter Valerio Adami reminisces about Jacques Derrida as follows: "He loved Ribera's painting of a blind man touching a Greek sculpture, and the idea that one can attain a different kind of...