In theory, swearing off male attention is easy, but ignoring a flirtatious smile is almost impossible.

Time magazine's art critic is listed in serious but stable condition after a head-on collision in Australia.

Your guide to the role of women in fine art and the world.

Two artists who couldn't be more different do have one one thing in common: Mystery.

Chicago hosts the biggest fine art fair in America.

A young writer on a semester in Florence encounters enduring lessons in art and love. By Bill Barich.

A semester in Florence shapes a young writer's life.

I would find my daughter's make-believe companion heartwarming if my mother hadn't talked to imaginary people too.

Hal LaCroix describes what really goes on at a festival for wannabe film-makers in Nantucket, Mass.

Sound Salvation is a biweekly music column by Sarah Vowell. Beck puts his collages onto canvas alongside those of his late grandfather, Fluxus artist Al Hansen

The artist is the hero in these sensuous children's books that will inspire a passion for painting and provide insight into some secrets of artmaking. In her monthly children's book column, Polly Shulman reviews 'Yellow and You,' by Candace Whitman; 'Chuck Close Up Close,' by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan; 'Little Girl In a Red Dress With Cat and Dog,' by Nicholas B.A. Nicholson, illustrated by Cynthia Von Buhler; 'The Artist's Friends,' by Allison Barrows; and 'Linnea in Monet's Garden,' by Christina Björk , illustrated by Lena Anderson

Give the people what they want.

In this distinguished Welsh writer's mind, Florence is the quintessential center of art, history and civilization

A review of American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America by Robert Hughes.

Will the U.S.-backed push by NATO into central Europe start a new Cold War?

The Swiss weren't the only ones to covet Nazi war loot. The French government has been equally dishonorable about returning wartime stolen paintings to their rightful owners.

You want art? Look through the hole in the token, jiveasses

Jesse Helms thinks artists must be socially responsible. So do many of the shocking artists he reviles. They're all wrong.

Photojournalist Ed Kashi captures the defiance of the West Bank's Jewish settlers