Simon Schama explores the final works of Rembrandt van Rijn prior to the artist’s death in 1669. Historian Simon Schama explores the final works of Rembrandt van Rijn in the years leading up to the ...

American Public Television (APT) has acquired four titles from BBC Studios, including Mark Gatiss’s drama Ghost Stories, for syndication in the U.S. public television system. APT is also distributing ...

In the film The Madness of King George, the Puritan pastor charged with monitoring and rectifying the conduct of the crazed George III says to him firmly, ominously, “I have you in my eye, Sir. I ...

Senior writer Frances Stead Sellers speaks with historian Simon Schama, who has chronicled subjects, including the French Revolution, Rembrandt and America’s place in the world about his latest book, ...

It didn't exactly take dogged detective work for an art sleuth in Amsterdam to solve a canine conundrum dating back to the Dutch Golden Age. Anne Lenders, a curator at the city's landmark Rijksmuseum, ...

Rembrandt needed a break. His career was on the skids, but a new, important commission was set to redeem him. The painting that became known as Claudius Civilis was supposed to be triumphant, but ...

We usually look at art in the hushed, reverential surroundings of museums and galleries — and that, argues writer and art historian Simon... Simon Schama on the Unsettling 'Power of Art' We usually ...

On several of his subjects, from British art, slavery in America and landscape in culture to the history of the Jews, he has presented popular television series. The energy and curiosity is prodigious ...