José María Velasco is now recognised as Mexico’s pre-eminent 19th-century painter and an important influence on later, more familiar artists, including his student Diego Rivera.

“When we imitate, we transfer not only the demands for creative activity but also the responsibility for the action from ourselves to another.”

The National Gallery has secured a breathtaking yet enigmatic early 16th-century Northern Renaissance altarpiece, unseen by the public since 1960.

A high-profile auction record has unravelled in Vienna, as the $32 million sale of Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Fräulein Lieser (1917) collapses under the weight of unresolved restitution claims.

Luc Tuymans (born June 14, 1958, in Mortsel, Belgium) is a visual artist renowned for his paintings that explore humanity’s relationship with history and its tendency to ignore it.

Images from a limited-edition photo book by Australian photographer Nick Bannehr (previously featured here).

Taggart says the expansion further downtown is to represent more contemporary artists and appeal to younger collectors.

Alphonse Mucha’s distinctive style was called le style Mucha, becoming synonymous with the Art Nouveau style.

Art Nouveau is one of the most distinguished styles in art. Even though its duration was brief, it quickly became a fetish of the elite.

Carl Strathmann’s Bizarre Cabinet of Art Nouveau Curiosities.

The who, what, when and where of the 20/21 marquee week at Christie’s Rockefeller Center galleries.

It’s hard to imagine a welcome mat being rolled out at the entrance to a Secret Service compound, let alone a table for two perched atop a diving platform in the middle of winter.

The fifth episode of SOMA features a site-specific sound intervention and the first solo presentation of Tobias Maria Koch, a Basel and Turin-based sound artist and composer.

Artists starving in garrets is an old cliché.

Be Nice – Art Fundraiser for Bow Foodbank & The New Normal – features 20+ contemporary artists.