The painting was bought in 1736 by the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, Robert Walpole, and was displayed in Lady ...

Many museums across Israel have closed today as most municipalities join the nationwide labour strike called by the Histadrut, the country’s main labour union. The call to strike action was made on ...

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The UK's largest celebration of work by D/deaf and disabled artists opens on 4 September with a packed and varied programme ...

Ahead of a packed month across the art world—including Frieze Seoul; The Armory Show, New York; Berlin Art Week and Barcelona's Manifesta—we round up the biggest and best exhibitions to see ...

The world’s oldest collection of archival material on the Nazi era is set to reopen following a major renovation, with a new exhibition of works by German Jewish sculptor Fred Kormis. London’s ...

The sitter of this painting, Luke Iondies, was a friend of Whistler and came from a London-based Greek family of wealthy art patrons. Ionides had “at least four Whistler ‘nocturnes’ in his ...

Today marks the three-year anniversary of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, a move that ended America’s longest-ever war and left the country under Taliban control. The return to ...

Keir Starmer is really not keen on a portrait of the former Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher hanging in 10 Downing Street—so much so that he has apparently removed the picture from the ...

On Wednesday (28 August), Richard Brauer, the 97-year-old founding director of the art museum at Valporaiso University in Indiana and after whom it subsequently was renamed, ended his legal ...