In honor of Black History Month and his upcoming exhibit, the Palm Springs Art Museum will host a Modernism Week lecture on Howard Smith Feb. 17.

When Brooklyn was incorporated as a city in 1834, building a new city hall was high on the list of priorities.

Donna Tartt’s “The Goldfinch,” another novel about another Dutch painting from the same period, hanging in the same museum, the Maurithuis in The Hague, won ...