Standing before a masterpiece in a hushed museum gallery, most visitors admire the brushwork, the colors, the composition.

In 1957, the painter showed the BBC how he built up his pictures of industrial urban life from his imagination, and described the loneliness that informed them.

In 1527, renowned Renaissance artist Hans Holbein the Younger completed his portrait of the martyred chancellor of England, one of the world’s most inspiring and revered paintings — Portrait of Sir ...

It caused a scandal in imperial Russia, then became a staple of popular art in the USSR. But when I spied a copy of Ivan Kramsky’s portrait in the film Sentimental Value, it opened a door to an untold ...

He is known as the French Banksy — or simply JR. Now the artist popular across France for large-scale projects, from ...

In 1976, Rocky was the top movie of the year. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Burgess Meredith, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and ...

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London showcases drawings and etchings from throughout the British ...

Anna Medyanik's drawings take well-known artworks and famous characters, but with a fun twist: instead of their faces, there's a hole where her cat, Sima, peeks through.

When a 5-inch-by-4-inch red chalk drawing of a woman’s foot by Michelangelo sold at auction for US$27.2 million on Feb. 5, ...

Celebrate spring with the destinations that boast amazing floral legacies.

Over 79,000 visited the Turner Prize 2025 exhibition at Bradford’s Cartwright Hall, part of the UK City of Culture, featuring ...