When the Rijksmuseum reopened after a decade-long, $410 million redevelopment in 2013, it was party time in Amsterdam. In a ceremony marked by fireworks, oranje carpets, and military marching bands, ...
Historians have sniffed out a similar canine in an Adriaen van de Venne drawing. "Operation Night Watch" looks at the dog in Rembrandt van Rijn's painting The Night Watch. Photo: by Kelly Schenk, ...
It didn't exactly take dogged detective work for an art sleuth in Amsterdam to solve a canine conundrum dating back to the Dutch Golden Age. Anne Lenders, a curator at the city's landmark Rijksmuseum, ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. If the dog in one corner of Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” painting looks a little out of ...
In “Night Watch,” Kevin Young riffs on Dante’s “Inferno” and gives voice to silenced figures from the nation’s past. By Sandra Simonds Sandra Simonds is the author of eight books of poetry and, most ...