Today, the Tate Modern unveiled a spectacular painting by American artist Joan Mitchell, one of a group of works donated by ...

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has put many vintage photos of people with their dogs, cats, horses, parrots and more on display in its new exhibit “Howl: The Art & History of ...

Kate Birdsall Johnson, a billionaire and “eccentric cat fancier” in the 1800s, lived in an ornate Sonoma castle and financed ...

Eventually the tour turned to lawmakers, too. Well-known in New Zealand is the story of William Larnach, a politician who in ...

(AP) Constructed in the late 19th century and feared by some of parliament's night shift security guards and cleaners, it has survived two fires, a flood and being overrun by feral cats.

(AP Photo/Charlotte Graham-McLay) Tour guides donned in Victorian-era garb tell visitors of ghost stories in New Zealand Parliament Buildings. A tour guide at New Zealand’s Parliament gives a spooky ...

After hours on Thursday, however, guides donned Victorian-era garb to regale visitors ... as they glided down staircases beneath the portraits of former head librarians and New Zealand prime ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A veiled woman burst screaming from an elevator. The small crowd gathered in a basement corridor of New Zealand ‘s parliament drew back nervously.

For the centenary of her birth, her paintings are finally getting an audience — and updating her legacy. Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 self-portrait is the star of an exhibition in Milledgeville ...

But the artist didn’t stop with the postman: He painted the entire family, making 26 portraits of Roulin and his wife, Augustine, and their three children. It’s “one of the most impressive ...

and punctuated with humor—as a cat, a figure in a witch hat (which she often wore around her neighborhood), even a crescent moon. Each painting is a self-portrait of some kind, points out ...