John Martin “Belshazzar’s Feast” When the 19th-century visionary painter John Martin exhibited his best known canvas Belshazzar’s Feast at the British Institution in February 1821, the 8ft high and 5ft long picture had to be cordoned off to keep the crowds at arm’s length. For Belshazzar’s Feast is painting as theatre. Against an architectural phantasmagoria [...]

A museum staff member presents a previously unknown work by the 17th century Flemish Baroque artist Anthony van Dyck ‘The Virgin and Child with Repentant Sinners’ circa 1625, which the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid discovered in one of its warehouses where the painting had been listed as a copy, in [...]

Robbo’s 1985 piece beneath a bridge across Regent’s Canal in Camden was the oldest surviving graffiti in London. Secured inside a wooden crate and locked in a warehouse is a painting that could cement this city’s reputation as a showcase for avant-garde art. Or as a wasteland waiting to be picked apart.

Pablo Picasso’s Nude Green Leaves, and Bust sold for 106,482,500 USD (approximately 82,000,000 euros) to an unidentified telephone bidder, setting a new world record for any work of art sold at auction in New York City, New York, USA, 04 May 2010 Nude, Green Leaves and Bust – the Picasso painting that last year became [...]

Vermeer, Jan The Music Lesson c. 1662-1665. Oil on canvas 74.6 x 64.1 cm Dulwich Picture Gallery is celebrating the 200th anniversary of its founding by borrowing a masterpiece a month from another collection for every month of the year. The offering for March is Vermeer’s The Music Lesson, on loan from the Royal Collection. [...]