ERNEST EUGENE BARNES Jr. was born in Durham, N.C., in 1938, and grew up in a segregated neighborhood known as the Bottom. His father was a shipping clerk for Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company and ...

The earliest series from Paintings for the Temple – Primordial Chaos – shares the information-rich, diagrammatic quality of 19th century teaching charts for medicine or the natural sciences.

Whether you're looking to buy prints, discover an up-and-coming artist, or invest pricier pieces, here are the best place to shop for affordable art from the comfort of your couch.

The painting: German visual artist Gerhard Richter, considered one of the most popular contemporary living artists, painted "A.B.Still," which sold at Sotheby's New York auction in 2016. At the ...

In 2016, Jennifer J. Lee, 47, was one of 10 artists assisting the abstract painter Julie Mehretu on a large-scale commission for the lobby of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that would lead ...

The commissioned videos are part of a wider content strategy at the NGA to work with more content creators online “who use their creativity to relay art history in innovative ways”, says Myers.

Last month, the Hilma af Klint Foundation had to admit that one of the artist’s abstract canvases may have been hanging upside down for decades. The experts were clued in by an eagle-eyed fan ...

Primary Resources > Art and Design KS2 An adventure inside some of the most exciting paintings held in British collections today. These clips are taken from the original BBC series, Your Paintings.