Painting News

LONDON: The Tate Britain museum bought 19th-century English painter John Constable's masterpiece " Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows" for 23.1 million pounds , making it one of the most expensive British paintings ever sold.

Lenora Paige, 20, Suttons Bay, lingers over "The Nut Gatherers", a beloved painting from 1882 by Adolphe-William Bouguereau in the Modern galleries.

The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will host the exhibition "Deaccessioning Bernard Smol" May 25 to July 7 in the Martha Thompson Dinos Gallery.

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad-Ali Sajjadi, who is famous for his thrillers, has said that he is alive with painting nowadays.

When you switch on to Britain's Got Talent on a Sunday night, seeing something unusual is pretty much par for the course.

LIFE model and testicular cancer survivor Anthony Weston has stripped off for an Oxford charity's upfront new poster campaign.

The receipt is estimated to achieve 25,000-30,000 in Sotheby's London Music and Manuscripts Sale.

The somewhat elusive Springfield Ditch Projects gallery opened its latest exhibit May 18, and it runs through June 15.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art 's galleries for its world-renowned collection of European Old Master paintings from the 13th through the early 19th century reopened on May 23 after an extensive renovation and reinstallation.

Cincinnati Art Museum has purchased an acclaimed oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe. O'Keeffe's 'My Back Yard,' an oil on canvas, is the Art Museum's first acquisition of a work by the renowned American artist.

An Edward Hopper painting of New York City's Roosevelt Island has sold for just over $19 million at auction.

The New York State Museum has added two artifacts to its exhibition marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

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An artist is putting the finishing touches to his final work of art on the South West Coast Path after creating 365 paintings in 12 months.

They've been cropping up all over London. A giant blue pigeon. An enormous raven.

We've been here before, but it wasn't quite the same. The frequently sun-struck paintings in the engaging exhibition, Continuity and Change: The Return to Figurative Painting , now at Cincinnati Art Galleries, are the work of seven area artists - Emil Robinson, Rob Anderson, Linda E. Anderson, Aidan Schapera, Brian Burt, Tim Kennedy and Eve ... (more)

SOME of Hampshire's biggest tourist attractions are hosting a LEGO trail this half term with large scale replicas of landmarks.

Artist Jack Zajac said learning earlier this year that his bronze sculpture was among the last works of art ever seen by President John F. Kennedy left him feeling "reverential." Zajac's small sculpture of a bound goat was among a collection of impressive artwork that decorated the president's Fort Worth hotel suite in hopes of creating something ... (more)

But to produce a successful piece of art, an artist has to be wary and attentive to what he or she is seeing - and not seeing - in a photograph.

Thanks to a grant from the Woodmansterne Art Conservation Awards 2012/2013 and financial help from the Friends of Doncaster Museum Service, a marvellous large-scale painting of St.