A centuries-old mystery surrounds Vermeer's painting, The Girl with a Pearl Earring. A fresh scientific perspective may now reveal what makes it so captivating. Neuroscientists have measured the brain ...

He will be succeeded by the German art historian Axel Rüger—a former long-time director of Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum and, as it happens, a Vermeer scholar himself.

The museum, which houses 1,800 European artworks including three Vermeer paintings, is set to welcome visitors again after a four-year renovation. Johannes Vermeer's "Mistress and Maid" (1664–67 ...

Johannes Vermeer's ‘The Concert’ is a masterpiece of Dutch Golden Age painting. It had the amazing precision of chiaroscuro and the aesthetics of a Vermeer painting. The painting showed 3 ...

Dutch scientists have cracked the hypnotic power of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring painting. Their study ...

In short, a real painting "activates the brain differently," as a museum news release puts it. ・Vermeer's work: The ...

Opening Nov. 17 at Sarasota Art Museum is an exhibition titled “Contemplating Vermeer.” Artist Joe Fig created 16 new ...

Canon has officially revealed its cheapest spatial and smallest VR lens yet, the $450 RF-S7.8mm F4 STM Dual. The economy is ...

There are a few days to go until the spookiest holiday of the year, but folks are already been dressing up as their favorite memes for Halloween. Sometimes, “I hate gay Halloween” is omitted ...

Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative process can conjure something far darker than Vantablack. Do some ...

As the election nears its end, the battle between Vice President Harris and former President Trump has been marked by memes and viral moments from the campaign trails. Here are five memorable ...

The “Mama A Girl Behind You” meme comes from a viral 2018 Facebook video that resurfaced on TikTok and took on a new form. The silly line spoken by a child in a short video inspired imitations ...