Renaissance artist Caravaggio used an early form of photography to project images of his subjects onto a canvas using a noxious concoction of crushed fireflies and white lead. Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus The 16th century master used modern darkroom techniques to create his masterpieces, more than 200 years before the invention of the camera. Italian [...]

Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective is the first major retrospective of the work of Martin Kippenberger (German, 1953–1997) to be mounted in the United States. One of the most significant and influential artists of our time, Kippenberger produced a complex and richly prolific body of work from the mid-1970s until his untimely death in 1997 [...]

Maurice Agis in his giant inflatable work of art work Dreamspace. Photograph: Toby Melville/PA An elderly artist whose huge inflatable “dream machine” broke loose from home-made moorings at a summer fair, killing two women trapped inside, was convicted of breaching health and safety rules yesterday.

Damien Hirst has defied the slump in U.K. consumer spending by opening a second shop in London. Other Criteria, the U.K. artist’s publishing and merchandising company, started the store this week at 14 Hinde Street in the Marylebone district. It sells works including some by Hirst himself ranging from his keyrings at 3.50 pounds ($5) [...]

Melting clocks, Mae West’s lips and a twenty foot high Space Elephant are just a few of the extraordinary works of art on display at the Dali Universe. Enter the genial mind of the greatest surrealist, self-publicist and creative genius of the Twentieth Century, Salvador Dali, in this stunning, permanent 30,000 square foot retrospective located [...]

Realist painter whose work was much loved by the US public but divided the critics Andrew Wyeth, who has died aged 91, was America’s best-known painter. Even his models became famous just for being his models: one was the subject of a biography, another, his neighbour Helga, was the centre of scandalised speculation because the [...]

The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in Chelsea will close at the end of this month. That may not mean much to most of the art world’s hipper denizens, but it will to visionary and psychedelic-art fans for whom the chapel has been a mecca since it opened in 2004. Alex Grey, “Seraphic Transport Docking on [...]