A rare painting by the street artist Banksy, inspired by the recently deceased Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, sold for nearly 4.3 million pounds ($5.5 million) Tuesday, according to auction ...

A ubiquitous presence in New York’s art world, he also existed outside it, using 19th-century techniques to create ethereal, haunting images. By Clay Risen Hal Hirshorn, an artist known for his ...

Jack Vettriano, the immensely popular self-taught Neo-Realist artist, who by his own account painted to offer his audience escapism with his nostalgia-fuelled, romantic works, has died aged 73.

She later moved on to neo-soul and R&B music as a solo artist with albums including “Black Diamond” in 1999 and “Mahogany Soul” in 2001. In a 2020 interview with “The Breakfast Club ...

Twenty-five years ago in Rome, a man lugged a painting in a rubbish bag up a flight of stairs and sold it for $5.5m. The painting was a lavish 17th-century still life by Jan Davidsz de Heem ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 79 ...

In the late 19th century, Swedish artist Gustaf Fjaestad painted his home country’s pine forests laden with snow. In 1900, Norwegian painter Edvard Munch depicted wintry trees lining a fjord ...

A mural showing U.S. billionaire Elon Musk peeling off his face, like a mask, to unveil Adolf Hitler underneath has been inaccurately credited online to British street artist Banksy. Photos of the ...

It was announced last week that video game artist Viktor Antonov had died at the unreasonably young age of 52. With stints working at big-name studios like Valve and Arkane, Antonov’s work was a ...