The Toledo Museum of Art is one of the nation’s best galleries. It has a superlative collection and does intelligent, topical shows. I saw its newest show, Frans Hals Portraits: A Family Reunion ...

In an interview with Apollo in 2017, four years before his death, the American artist Wayne Thiebaud claimed that ‘the art world is not much interested in humour […] to its disadvantage’.

Haarlem-based portrait painter Frans Hals (1582-1666) was among the most famous artists in the Dutch Republic during his lifetime—not just for his mastery of portraiture, but for his total ...

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It’s a salve to see people smiling in a museum exhibition, and smiling in an exhibition as serious and smart as Frans Hals at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Smiling people, whether they’re ...

Venetian art is represented by its master painter Titian, as is Dutch baroque art by Frans Hals. Outstanding works of European art and sculpture from the late 18th to the beginning of the 20th ...