Sean Scully, "Heart of Darkness" (1982), oil on canvas, 8 x 12 feet. Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Society for Contemporary Art (image courtesy the Art Institute ...

A previously unknown work has been analyzed and revealed using scientific research underneath an oil painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Tiziano Vecellio, better known as Titian. The painting ...

Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted a portrait of a sculptor friend, high-tech imaging tools have revealed another portrait hidden beneath it. The concealed image reveals a woman, the ...

In mid-July 2024, the claim circulated on social media that John Hinckley Jr., the man who attempted to assassinate then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1981, makes $3,500 per month by repeatedly ...

England is the only advanced, industrialized country that I can think of where portraiture and postwar painting have become nearly interchangeable. One cannot think of painting in postwar England ...

In 2019, Dulwich Picture Gallery, England’s oldest such public institution, nestled in a leafy south London suburb, was the target of a robbery. At midnight, a man broke into the plain brick building ...

The page has already collected thousands of followers just one day after first being made. The 30-year-old showed off a series of her works in an Instagram post on Monday - and had plenty of fans for ...

Art is subjective. No one person can look at one piece and interpret it the same as another. Each and every brush stroke, line and dot holds meaning. And yet, despite that powerful message, I have a ...

As the first president of the United States, George Washington is one of the most recognizable figures in American history.