Until the mid-1800s, artists had to buy the ingredients separately and mix their own paints. This involved grinding colored minerals into pi...

Chasing Vermeer, by Blue Balliett, is an exciting mystery about the quest of two sixth graders, Petra and Calder, to save a work of art from...

Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter, born in Delft in 1632. He began his career in the arts when his father died and Vermeer inherited the ...