Eiichiro Oda's one suspicious answer about Blackbeard made One Piece fans suspicious of the character's connection to Rocks D. Xebec.

As was mentioned long ago in the story, Blackbeard's ship is called the Saber of Xebec. Clearly, this is a reference to Rocks D. Xebec, who few people know about in the world of One Piece.

Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative process can conjure something far darker than Vantablack. Do some ...

Scott Burton, one of America’s leading sculptors, entrusted his estate to the museum in 1989, when he was sick with AIDS, to ensure his place in art history. It turned out to be a bad idea.

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Now, and only now, you may pick up your brush. The Met’s new show about what happens next, “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” makes clear how astonishing it is that paint, of all ...

One such work is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s very own Madonna and Child (ca. 1300), a tempera and gold painting on wood panel that measures no more than 11 inches on its longest side.

In the summer of 2022, I was walking on the beach at Half Moon Bay in California, when I saw the strangest thing approaching on the waves. When it struck the shore and deflated, I knew: it was a ...

Pietro Lorenzetti’s three-level “Tarlati Altarpiece” from about 1320 in the exhibition “Siena: The Rise of Painting: 1300-1350.” Tempera on wood, it traveled from a church in Arezzo to ...