Which brings me to… The Milkmaid falls smack dab in the ... who is just beginning to paint her. As Eric Jan Sluijter argues, Vermeer’s Art of Painting is meant specifically to display the ...

Here’s what some of their lives look like now. Like others who disrupted the election certification on Jan. 6, Jacob Chansley has questioned his prison sentence.Credit...Adriana Zehbrauskas ...

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Johannes Vermeer used the impasto technique to render the texture of fabrics, bread crusts, and facial features of his characters. Impressionist painters eagerly employed impasto in their works to ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday that House Republicans will investigate the disbanded House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The Justice Department is considering charging up to 200 more people for their alleged involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, a report says. The new figures released Monday on ...

In the days leading up to the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, President Joe Biden made little effort to hide the fact that the insurrectionist riot was on his mind.

Trump has spent the past four years seeking to rewrite the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when rioters tried to halt the certification of his defeat to President Biden. On the campaign trail, he ...

The artist Joe Fig (b.1968) is renowned for his ongoing “Contemplation” series — small, intimate paintings of people looking at artworks in museums and galleries.

Multiple people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol have sought permission to travel to Washington to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration — and their requests ...

No mobs are assembling to disrupt Congress’ Jan. 6 counting of electoral votes. No Democratic leaders are questioning the results of the election or concocting elaborate legal theories to thwart ...

On Jan. 6, 2021, the day Congress was to certify the results of that election, Trump held a rally on the Ellipse with the White House in the background and urged thousands of his supporters to ...