JANESVILLE—The Penn and Teller documentary “Tim's Vermeer,” which opens Friday, March 14, at Madison's Sundance Cinemas, has a surprisingly local connection. Teresa Nguyen of Janesville is a cousin of ...

They called him the Sphinx of Delft. He was one of art’s most enigmatic figures, a painter whose serene interiors concealed as much as they revealed. Soon after his death in 1675, unscrupulous dealers ...

Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer is known to have created 36 pieces of artwork during his life, including his most famous painting, "Girl with a Pearl Earring." The painting depicts a woman, but it's not ...

A 2013 documentary by illusionist and skeptic Teller, one half of Penn and Teller, explores recent theories on how 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer created some of the best-beloved ...

Here’s a pearl of wisdom. After 360 years, an art historian has allegedly solved one of art history’s most enduring mysteries — the identity of the subject in the “Girl With a Pearl Earring” painting.

When you stand in front of Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl With The Pearl Earring,” something extraordinary happens in your brain.

Secreted away beneath layers of paint in Johannes Vermeer’s “A Maid Asleep” (ca. 1657) sits a faceless man. The figure, now buried by rich, dark pigments in the top-right corner, was first detected in ...