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They don't look much like contemporary art-lovers. There are no sharp suits, silly haircuts or bold spectacle frames. Instead, the queue snaking outside the Royal College of Art (RCA) is made up of a motley group – bleary-eyed...
Listing the likenesses between modern art and prostitution would take more space than we have here and be just too easy. Not so for Ed and Nancy Kienholz, though, which is why the National Gallery is currently home to a chunk...
The view from our veranda is one of the most beautiful I have ever seen. It's a vision of earthly paradise as painted by the Flemish masters. There are 20ft trees that would be no taller than a much-loved potted plant in the...
Nigel Dickson's photograph of the late jazz giant Oscar Peterson, part of a show on view at the Royal Ontario Museum until March. Nigel Dickson Ian Brown considers what a government that nixes a national portrait gallery is...
I was in Chicago with time on my hands and the sweet woman murmured to me — you know how this goes — "Would you like to see the Art Institute?" and I was thinking No No No God No, and I said, "Sure. Fine."
Tracy Lee Stum holds a Guinness record for the largest street painting by an individual — Photo: R. Shivaji Rao Tracy Lee Stum. She loves the idea of making a plain wall appear more appealing. And that’s what American street...
With his solo show on till December 8 at Art Musings in Mumbai, Paresh Maity discusses his art and the sense of being rooted in their milieu. This week, if you are in Mumbai, you may catch Paresh Maity — known for the most...
Jane Johnson recounts a fictional recreation of the Infanta Maria's sitting for Velazquez's Las Meninas. Diego Velazquez, renowned painter of the Spanish Court, painted Las Meninas in 1656, when the Infanta Margarita was five...
One of the Earliest American Ornithology Books Birds of America, a collection of 435 bird illustrations in seven volumes, was John James Audubon's finest work. John James Audubon, born in 1785, was a naturalist his whole life,...
Daniel Calander's inspirations are pro athletes, kids making ketchup sandwiches, and jazz musician Boney James. Add homelessness to that list, as he deals with congestive heart failure at the Center for Respite Care.
