The Southern Baptist peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia, was a dedicated amateur portraitist and made a deep cultural impact ...

It is a surprising coda to the broadly anticlerical French Revolution—not to mention seemingly dissonant with contemporary ...

The late artist was actually quite sociable and had stopped producing "thick" paintings decades ago, says his only child ...

The Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto has unveiled his homage to Caravaggio’s Nativity masterpiece at the Sicilian ...

Faith Ringgold, Frank Auerbach, Richard Serra, Barbara Gladstone and Lorraine O’Grady were among those who died this year ...

David Nolan Gallery of New York showed a number of erotic works on paper in a mysterious, secluded room within its stand at ...

Earlier this year at the 60th Venice Biennale, the Holy See launched its pavilion in the Giudecca Women’s Prison featuring ...

The glacier paintings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) are some of her best-known works. When the Scottish artist ...

A tour of the remodelled building, five months before its reopening, shows the New York architect has created a spectacular ...

Unlike his best-known, monumental and ephemeral works, the artist’s newly restored Rosebush is firmly embedded in the ...

In his new book Koenraad Jonckheere argues that the way we view images on the social media platform is rooted in the past ...

The Vasari Corridor (Corridoio Vasariano)—the secret passageway over the Arno River in Florence that connects the Uffizi ...