At Los Angeles’ The Other Art Fair, photographer Jason Ward serves up a subversive Mario Bros. Also: Kevin Avery’s oceanic photography and Luca Chiaravalle’s miniatures.

Exactly one year after he died, a self-portrait of artist Jack Vettriano will go on display at the National Galleries in ...

Charlotte Meyer's grandfather acquired the artworks between 1900 and 1920. Now, they're going on view for the first time in ...

For painters in particular, it’s a means of evolving ideas long before brush touches canvas; and, in some cases, like Lucian Freud’s, it’s an abiding obsession. The artist (1922-2011) was “almost ...

Michael Rosario, under the online name of Michaelldrawss, has been drawing for as long as he can remember. He says he first started sketching at around four years old, beginning with anime-inspired ...

Some exhibitions make you feel inspired, others perplexed. Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting at the National Portrait Gallery left me feeling battered and bruised – as if I’d been hit by a wrecking ...

There is thrift-store art, which is worse than it is old, until the date on the back makes it a kind of personal riddle. Mitchell Carey, a 26-year-old Marine, had been window shopping the art section ...

One of Artemisia Gentileschi’s earliest self-portraits is making its auction debut. Experts believe the painting can be dated to when Gentileschi first moved to Florence as a 20-year-old newlywed in ...

In mid-January 1889, three weeks after mutilating his ear, Van Gogh painted two astonishing self-portraits, depicting himself with a prominent bandage, covering his mutilated ear. The famous one is in ...

"It feels like a crisis every time I pick up a brush and paint, it's life or death." There's no sense of exaggeration or drama when Celia Paul talks about her work but her paintings speak volumes ...

The bed is a recurring theme in Kahlo’s art, symbolizing both refuge and confinement. (Sotheby's) Frida Kahlo made history this week as her haunting 1940 self-portrait, “El sueño (La cama)” — which ...