Camille Pissarro

Gustavo Dudamel will conduct the Simon Bolivar Symphony at Carnegie Hall next season. The Public Theater in New York said its two Central Park productions this year will be Shakespeare's "As You Like It," starring Lily Rabe, and a revival of the musical...

"Salem: A Guide to America's Bewitching City" Salem, Mass., has earned a reputation as the unofficial Halloween capital of the world. It has something to do with those witches. The Salem witch trials may have taken place in 1692, but you would never...

Last spring in the Paris Metro, I paused to admire a colorful advertisement for the Impressionist Normandy Festival, a celebration of the region's role in the Impressionist painting movement. My brother Davey, an art history major at Connecticut College,...

Mega-millions: More analysis of the designs for Eli Broad's planned contemporary art museum in downtown L.A. (Los Angeles Times) Dictator: The German Historical Museum in Berlin has extended its exhibition on Adolf Hitler due to popular demand. (Reuters)...

A La Mesa man at the center of a legal battle to recover a piece of art taken by the Nazis during World War II has died. Claude Cassirer spoke exclusively to Fox 5 in his last television interview. The Cassirer family is suing the Spanish government...

A painting worth almost $20 million hangs in a Spanish museum, but members of a La Mesa family say it should be hanging in their home. The Cassirer family is suing the Spanish government for the return of the painting they say was stolen from them by the...

-- Dotting the i's: Jeffrey Deitch's contract with L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art has safeguards against conflicts of interest, according to museum leaders. (Los Angeles Times) -- Recovered masterpiece: Police say they have found a Claude Monet...

Tucked away at the Sierra Madre Historical Preservation Society is an intriguing photo of a young woman sitting in a leafy, patchy garden. A man with folded arms stands quietly behind her as she paints. Photographs like this made their way from West to...

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that Claude Cassirer, an 89-year-old resident of La Mesa, Calif., can sue Spain and a cultural foundation in order to reclaim a 19th century painting that was seized from his family by the Nazis.......

-- New caretaker?: LACMA in talks to take over as curator and conservator of Watts Towers. (Los Angeles Times) -- Not for sale: Ownership dispute forces Chicago auction house to delay sale of some items belonging to 20th century designers......

Jonathan Petropoulos, a scholar-sleuth noted for helping to return art looted by the Nazis to its proper owners, has resigned his post as director of Claremont McKenna College's Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights -- the...

Awhile back, I tested the Chrysler PT Cruiser and folded the rear seats only partially before I put all my toys in. This creates a load floor that's not level, which I didn't like. Readers correctly pinged me about not......