Telegraph.co.uk When I turn up at his London studio, Gary Hume is fast asleep. His assistant lets me in, and soon afterwards he shambles into view, rubbing bloodshot eyes. Wearing paint-splattered jeans, and with thick silver bristles flecking his face, he looks like he has spent a week getting well and truly wasted. In fact, [...]

Telegraph.co.uk In 1842, Richard Dadd, a popular and gifted artist of 24, set off from London on a Grand Tour of Europe and the Middle East with Sir Thomas Phillips, a former mayor of Newport, who had employed him to document their journey in drawings and paintings. Within a year, however, Dadd had returned to [...]

The artist at his home and studio in Captiva Island, Fla. in 2005.
Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died Monday night. He was 82.
Mr. Rauschenberg’s work gave new meaning to sculpture. A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, [...]

“Kobo” (1999)
Ken Johnson writes: “What a transformation! The New Museum’s show of paintings by Tomma Abts is as quiet, spare and luminous as ‘Unmonumental’ - the big show of assemblages and collages that inaugurated the museum’s new building in December - was congested and noisy. Widely spaced on three white walls under a soaring ceiling [...]

The Archibald Prize has been won by one of Australia’s rising art stars, Sydney painter Del Kathryn Barton.
Her portrait, You Are What is Most Beautiful About Me, A Self Portrait with Kell and Arella, is of the artist with her son and daughter. Barton said the painting was “one of the most personal works that [...]

Gallery workers hang a painting entitled ‘The Golden Age 1530′ by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Children may know William Steig as the creator of Shrek, but their grandparents can trace the ornery green ogre’s roots through a body of children’s books, New Yorker cartoons and drawings dating back to the Depression. Neither group will be disappointed by the Jewish Museum’s exhibition “From The New Yorker to Shrek: The Art of [...]