A television crew shoots video of Caravaggio’s “Adoration of the Shepherds”, a 1609 masterpiece, the object of a very public restoration in Italy’s lower chamber of parliament, in Rome, Wednesday Oct 7, 2009. Starting next week, small groups of tourists, students and art aficionados will be allowed to watch restorers touch up the painting in [...]

“The Capture of H.B.M. ‘Macedonian’ by the U.S. Frigate ‘United States,’ October 25, 1812,” circa 1840-50. The exuberant paintings of Thomas Chambers are admired by scholars and collectors of 19th-century American painting. But have there been any major Chambers exhibitions? Not one, at least not until now, with the extraordinary survey of nearly 50 paintings [...]