Dewdrops on dainty petals, light glancing off precious silverware, candied confectionery in blue and white Chinese porcelain bowls, the soft plumage of a dead songbird, the pale hue of a skull – still lifes have not ceased to exercise their spell upon us to this day with their close-up views of inanimate, yet by no [...]

Artistic talent often runs in the blood. That was certainly the case with the De Bray family, a clan of devout Catholic painters active in Haarlem in north Holland during the heyday of the Dutch Golden Age. In all likelihood, you won’t have come across the De Brays, who have been eclipsed by their more [...]

The National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) and the National Gallery in London (NGL) are working together with the Duke of Sutherland to secure the long-term future of the Bridgewater loan of Old Master paintings.
The Bridgewater Collection, currently on view at the NGS, is the most important private collection of Old Master paintings on loan to [...]

The Latin American collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is back on view after three years’ absence. And the reinstallation opens with a piquant flourish in a display of ancient pre-Columbian art that doubles as a solo show for a contemporary artist, and looks like a nightclub interior.
The artist, Jorge Pardo, who [...]

The Bass Museum of Art presents today 20th Century Works on Paper from the Fundacion Mapfre Collection: Picasso, Tàpies, Miró and Others , on view through November 2, 2008. This extraordinary exhibition is comprised of approximately 80 works on paper by some of the 20th century’s most renowned Spanish artists, as well as artists from [...]

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents the exhibition, El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III, the first comprehensive exhibition of art made for this Spanish court four centuries ago. Among the works of two giants of Spanish art, the [...]

Richard Serra.
One of the titans of modern art, Richard Serra, best known for his huge, emotionally moving steel sculptures, is to have his first solo exhibition in Britain since 1992. Serra is creating three large sculptures for an exhibition at the Gagosian galleries in London, the Guardian can reveal. It will be his first since [...]