What’s in a name? And what is the power of that name to communicate artistry and prestige? Since antiquity, names have had the power to generate relationships, tying us to people, to places, and also ...

In 2011, I was visiting a retrospective of art by Julien Hudson (1811–1844) at the Worcester Art Museum. There, I learned that his paintings were often hard to identify because, after the calcifying ...

Ready to invest seriously in art? Pro tip: pay attention to the size of the artist's signature. In this case, bigger is better. That's the takeaway from a new study out in the European Journal of ...

While searching for art pieces in his late uncle’s Philadelphia basement, Joe Castagno stumbled upon an unexpected sight: several boxes containing thousands of index cards, each bearing a copy of an ...