It was a time when painters and patrons, by common consent, chose God and His saints as the ultimate subject of art, and every studio apprentice planned on growing up to paint Him. It was an age ...

Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients for a juicy controversy. This may be why eye-rolling and schadenfreude emerge so virulently whenever said ...

In the coal mining village on the outskirts of Birmingham, opportunities were scant, and a career in art seemed out of the picture. Carol recalls being told as a girl not to expect to have any ...

She was notoriously difficult to work with, not in the least because—in the words of art historian Sharyn R. Udall—her “energies and emotions were intimately intertwined” to the point that ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I am a knight made of lightning and black steel. Perched on the parapet of a vast gothic ...