The ancient and the modern, hyper-realism and total abstraction, pleasure and pain, glory and horror, it’s all here at the greatest new art show in ... in the National Portrait’s show is ...

"I would say portrait art is kind of a westernized idea, but I think it's so important that we're involved and get to enjoy these things as well," she said. With a past riddled with traumatic ...

The first impression of entering Jenny Saville’s major retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery in London is one of raw, ample flesh. Viscerally rendered, luscious expanses of flesh create a ...

In a new documentary, the actress talks about the prejudice and loneliness she faced after becoming the rare Hollywood star who is deaf. By Alissa Wilkinson Beyond the somewhat silly premise of ...

This is portrait painting as electricity. Saville was born in Cambridge in 1970. Her work was spotted by Charles Saatchi in 1992 at a graduation show; he bought her entire collection on the spot.

More than a wealthy heiress, Peggy Guggenheim was a daring patron whose instinct and passion helped define modern art and save artists from obscurity – and worse One of the invisible architects of ...

Courtesy Christian Levett The Levett Collection, owned by British former hedge-fund manager Christian Levett, holds some 1,700 works in all media, spanning from antiquities to contemporary art, and ...

One of the highlights and oddities of the upcoming sale at Bertolami Fine Art in Rome is the following portrait of Portrait of Barbara Urslerin van Beck (1629- c.1688), who is likely to have suffered ...

Both voluntarily pay income tax on the proceeds. Some Royal Family members have private art, jewellery and stamp collections which they can sell or use to generate income as they wish. Charles ...

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