World News // 2 years ago Climate activist glues head to iconic Dutch painting Protests to stop climate change continued on Thursday, as one man attempted to glue his head to Johannes Vermeer's ...

The US Copyright Office issued its latest findings on the controversial question of who owns artworks created using ...

Johannes Vermeer was one of the masters of the Dutch Golden Age. He was born in Delft, Netherlands, in 1632 and died there at age 43, apparently quite broke. Only about 36 of his works survive.

“Contemplating Vermeer” is his most recent series, curated by Rangsook Yoon at Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College. The 16 paintings in this series looks at the rapt viewers of Johannes ...

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Three Belgian climate activists who were previously sentenced to prison for a protest targeting Johannes Vermeer’s painting “Girl with a Pearl Earring” will no longer face any punishment for ...

Last week such connoisseurs took note, with panic or delight, of a controversy which concerned a painting called The Guitar Player, executed long ago by famed Jan Vermeer der Delft; a painting of ...

Donna Tartt’s “The Goldfinch,” another novel about another Dutch painting from the same period, hanging in the same museum, the Maurithuis in The Hague, won ...