When the city of Boise, Idaho, bought the home of renowned Outsider artist James Castle (1899–1977), it hoped to use the property to pay tribute to the homegrown artist’s life and work. As it turned ...

James Castle, Untitled, n.d., found paper, soot. Smithsonian American Art Museum James Castle, Untitled, n.d., found paper, soot. Smithsonian American Art Museum Castle would often depict familiar ...

For Wendell Castle, nature is his artistic muse. At his studio in the idyllic village of Scottsville, he is surrounded by trees and remnants of an old train depot. There, Castle works on his art, ...

For decades, three Italian Renaissance paintings have hung on the walls of Hearst Castle at San Simeon, Calif., without betraying their grim history. But today, California parks officials will ...

High in the Bavarian Alps, a white castle with soaring turrets overlays a scene of rolling green meadows and snow-capped mountains straight out of a storybook watercolor. The setting is so idyllic it ...

Ireland’s Lismore Castle, built in 1185 by King John on the site of a seventh-century monastery, could be said to serve as a kunstkammer—or cabinet of curiosities—of sorts. It boasts one of Ireland’s ...

The remainder of a huge art collection that was amassed by one of Scotland's foremost noble families has been added to a national recognition scheme. The collection is on display at Brodick Castle, ...