Jane Harris in her studio in France, where she remained, far from London’s fashionable art scene.
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Jane Harris eschewed the fashionable 1990s London art scene and retreated to rural France where she experimented quietly with shape and colour.
John Singer Sargent’s infamous portrait of Madame X.
Metropolitan Museum
Art critics are wrong to discount what we can learn about the master painter from how he engaged with fashion and the fashionable.
Wheatfield with Crows (1890).
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Despite his mental anguish, Van Gogh produced some of his greatest paintings in the last few months of his life.
The detail of the demon in Sir Joshua Reynolds’ painting The Death of Cardinal Beaufort was revealed after extensive cleaning.
Petworth House / National Trust
The Enlightenment saw science and rational thought replace the religious superstitions of the previous century, and demons became metaphors for the human struggle between good and evil.
Vasily Kandinsky, Painting with white border, May 1913. Oil on canvas, 140.3 x 200.3 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, by gift, photo courtesy Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a pioneer of abstract art. His paintings have not aged and appear contemporary and relevant to us now.
The Kongouro from New Holland, 1772, George Stubbs
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
How did George Stubbs, one of England’s foremost painters of horses and dogs, get Australian animals so wrong?
Michael Zavros, Australia b.1974, Bad dad 2013. Oil on canvas, 110 x 150cm. Purchased 2016 with funds raised through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation Appeal. Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art. © Michael Zavros
A new exhibition of the Australian artist’s work at QAGOMA is the first comprehensive survey of Michael Zavros in a state gallery.
Self portrait with a letter.
Musée Rodin / Pallant House Gallery
Gwen John was very much her own woman and followed her own artistic instincts, producing small, intimate, idiosyncratic paintings that resonate.
Starlings flock to the West Pier.
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Historic paintings can be just as valuable as educational tools as videos created using the latest technologies.
Villa Aurora in Rome, which houses works by Caravaggio and Guercino, is up for sale.
Vincenzo Pinto/AFP via Getty Images
What will happen to this villa and its unique collection of 16th- and 17th-century ceiling paintings?
Rogan Productions
A new three-part series brings together a wealth of material and voices to present new films, photographs, stories and theories about the brilliant artist.
Man With a Tankard, by Frans van Mieris the Younger (1739).
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Historically, baldness was treated with neutrality, as a regular part of daily life. Ancient Egyptians had different balding hairstyles
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Toxic , pictured right, is inspired by the American cartoon and denounces the violence of American society.
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In the age of the Black Lives Matter movement, Basquiat’s work is more relevant than ever. It highlights racial inequality and violence against racialized people.
In a new land, the ancient past held special meaning.
'Temple of Aphaea, Aegina' by John Rollin Tilton. Courtesy of Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Americans of all stripes have long embraced the culture of the ancient Mediterranean, using ancient ideals to navigate a new world.
Paul Klee (1879–1940), Hammamet with Its Mosque, 1914.
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Wikimedia Commons
Hammamet with Its Mosque, a little picture with a monumental impact, belies a complex history of cross-cultural encounter.
One of these vases was painted by a woman; the other by a man. Can you guess which is which?
B van der Ast/M van Oosterwijck
People in our experiments liked art by women – but believed women’s paintings are less attractive for investment.
A Mallard Rising by one of the Glasgow Boys Joseph Crawhall is one of two new acquisitions.
Joseph Crawhall/ Glasgow Museums Collections
Gathered throughout the period of the British empire and gifted to the people of Glasgow, this famous collection is both spectacular and problematical.
Kelvingrove Art Gallery
A retrospective of John Byrne’s work over six decades reveals why he is one of Scotland’s most important artists.
In 1970, a 16-year-old Laotian boy drew a picture of his school being bombed. ‘Many people’ died, he wrote, ‘But I didn’t know who because I wasn’t courageous enough to look.’
Legacies of War
Their drawings and paintings often express a mix of horror, fear, hope and beauty.
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It has been tradition for soldiers to have a drink with Chloé at the Young and Jackson Hotel since the first world war.