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 Cut Melon,” a rare oval-shaped painting by the 18th-century French artist Jean Siméon Chardin, will hang on the Fort ...

The Texas museum was the underbidder on “The Cut Melon” last June at Christie's, but was ultimately able to acquire it ...

The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired a rare 18th-century French painting previously caught at the center of a lawsuit between ...

Jean Siméon Chardin's 1760 painting The Cut Melon is officially headed to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, after ...

The Kimbell Art Museum is a modern building. But in its elemental forms and materiality, it is deliberately and irrefutably timeless.(David Woo / Staff Photographer) The Kimbell Art Museum ...

The Kimbell Art Museum is celebrating 50 years with a series of anniversary events, including free admission to the new exhibit “Murillo: From Heaven to Earth” throughout the week. From the ...

The Kimbell Art Museum opened to the public 50 years ago on October 4,1972. It has now existed for almost eight times longer than it it took its architect, Louis I. Kahn, to conceive and construct ...

Eric M. Lee, the director of Fort Worth’s Kimbell Art Museum, often regarded as the country’s finest small museum, had his first day on the job three and a half years ago, but his admiration ...

A happy exception is the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, which looks even fresher and bolder now than when it opened 50 years ago in October 1972. The building sits in the city’s ...

Artemesia Gentileschi, Penitent Mary Magdalene (ca. 1625–26). Collection of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. “The Kimbell has long wished to acquire a work by Artemisia Gentileschi ...