It may be a relatively small category, eclipsed by the record-breaking sales of contemporary art that dominate the headlines, but Orientalist art has been making a quiet comeback in recent years. The ...

LONDON — The British Museum’s Inspired by the East: How the Islamic World Influenced Western Art begins with a lamentation about Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847-1928). Despite being “… well-known and ...

A Jean-Léon Gérôme painting that was authenticated after appearing on the BBC show Fake or Fortune sold for £94,500 with fees ($130,000) on Tuesday during Sotheby’s “The Orientalist sale.” With a ...

Click on image to see an enlarged view. Which New York cultural institution is currently offering the biggest shocker in the city? No, I don’t mean the beleaguered Jewish Museum, with its show of ...

Television revolving around vacations and retreats is having a moment right now, between the class-exposé satire of HBO Max’s “The White Lotus,” and now, Hulu’s “Nine Perfect Strangers,” based on the ...

In its sale of European paintings in New York next week, Sotheby’s auction house is offering a painting by the leading Orientalist painter Ludwig Deutsch. Unusually somber for this usually colorful ...

Orientalism was once derided as a racist and eroticized style of art. Now its biggest fans are collectors from the Middle East. The lush, Orientalist oil by Danish painter Elisabet Jerichau-Baumann ...