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Art
Rare Renaissance paintings by Antonello da Messina have been stolen from a museum in Sicily.
Four of the most important works by the 15th-century Renaissance master Antonello da Messina were stolen from a museum in…
"A lot of art in Ireland was created by one kind of man," says Richard Malone, as he brings his vibrant fabric designs to the EU Council.
“Just so you know,” Richard Malone says before we start talking, “if you hear any neighing, it’s not me!” The…
"Her crotchless trousers are burned into my memory forever": Valie Export, as remembered by the artists she inspired.
‘As important as Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece’ Peaches I still remember the first time I saw that poster of Valie…
The return of the Aparicio painting to the Prado shows how human taste changes over time.
No trip to the Prado these days is complete without a visit to room 12 of the Madrid museum, where…
Matisse, 1941-1954 review – a dazzling exhibition filled with one glorious masterpiece after another, celebrating the life-affirming brilliance of a true genius.
Forget the idea that youth is the peak of life—your best days may still be to come. Henri Matisse’s certainly…
Sex, Lies, and Pistachio Shells: The Troubling Dreamscapes of Artist Joseph Yaeger
Joseph Yaeger believes that “all paintings are in their own way accusations and confessions,” which is the central theme of…
Belgium celebrates the brilliant modernist artist Marthe Donas, whose talent was long overlooked.
In the years of artistic experimentation that followed World War I, critics were fascinated by the mysterious modernist known as…
Curious about the unsettling reality of the oil industry? Just take a look at their cheap paperweights.
In her bright Glasgow studio, artist Tanoa Sasraku shows me her collection of paperweights made by oil companies. “I find…
Newly discovered portrait could be of the 'fair youth' from Shakespeare's sonnets.
The discovery of a previously unknown portrait miniature by one of Elizabethan England’s greatest artists would be remarkable on its…