"The Cut Melon," a rare oval-shaped piece from the 18th-century French artist Jean Siméon Chardin, will be on view to the public starting Thursday at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth.

The Kimbell was outbid last year by an Italian investor who bought this painting for $26 million. But that wasn’t the end of the story.

The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired The Cut Melon (1760), a still life by Jean Siméon Chardin, from the Rothschild family, after an auction sale last year in Paris fell through. The work went on ...

The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired a rare 18th-century French painting previously caught at the center of a lawsuit between an international auction house and a private buyer. The Fort Worth art ...

Jean Siméon Chardin's 1760 painting The Cut Melon is officially headed to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, after a failed attempt to win it at auction. Last June, the Chardin painting set ...

A Cowtown native makes his return to the city with a robust art collection and a top-to-bottom makeover of a 1930s Tudor.

Texas preserves its past in ways that reflect the scale and complexity of the state itself. From the borderlands to the Gulf, ...

All Weekend Did you know that early Fort Worthians celebrated the German coming of spring at Maifest events as early as 1882?

At the Kimbell Art Museum, both ideas get a bit of backup from the exhibition “Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945,” which presents several remarkable artists all but unheard of in the United ...