This story appears in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. To appreciate a painting, we’re taught to look for color, composition, and light. But how can a painting be savored by ...
Imagine finding a super-valuable painting in your attic or at a flea market. While the most expensive paintings ever sold tend to be famous pieces everyone watches, some of them were rediscovered ...
Your Paintings Launched earlier this year by the BBC in partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation, Your Paintings is an interactive resource and online catalogue that aims to include every ...
By Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg Sotheby’s opened a new salesroom and international collectors are arriving for the inaugural Art Basel Paris fair. But visiting is one thing; buying is another.
A decade after his brutal murder, Zdzisław Beksiński’s paintings hold the world spellbound. Is the universal fascination they evoke the result of their author’s own gruesome tragedies, or did ...
A pair of paintings by Dutch maestro Vincent van Gogh at London's National Gallery were vandalized Friday when climate activists splattered what appeared to be tomato soup on them. The incident ...
Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. The paintings from Van Gogh's “Sunflowers” series, which the artist painted in Arles in the south of France, were not damaged thanks to protective ...