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I wonder how we got here. How is it that Vermeer’s paintings now strut the world stage, having skulked for two...

Dawn Eagletons street photographs are painterly: condensation, rain, smears and reflections coalesce to obscure, abstract and conceal each subject.

Although Johannes Vermeer produced fewer than 40 paintings, almost every one of them is memorable. See a list of them, ranked worst to best.

Saskia Hayes recounts her experience of seeing the largest-ever Vermeer exhibition.

Widely considered one of the greatest American plays ever written, this definitive version of the script presents Our Town as Thornton Wilder wished it to be performed. The story follows the small town of Grover's Corners through three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage,” and “Death and Eternity.”

As he coached top university basketball players, Yanni Hufnagel, founder and CEO of The Lemon Perfect Company, had a eureka moment...

These are but a few of the ways Vermeer immersed his subjects within timeless, serene settings where, distanced from a world awhirl in conflict, they experience inner peace. And the viewer, in the quietude of Vermeer’s space, can share that sense of peace.

A less-is-more approach to the biggest ever exhibition of the Dutch Old Master’s paintings makes this blockbuster a triumph

Why is it that the world of critics, gallery-goers and art-lovers is so overwhelmingly enthralled by Johannes Vermeer? His subjects – quiet interior scenes with women writing letters or playing music – are hardly the stuff of radical innovation or surprise. He wasn’t even that original: his works often have a similar focus to those

What qualities make art enduring? For museumgoers and modern artists, examining the work of 17th-century painter Johannes Vermeer offers the opportunity to both reflect on, and shift, the narrative.