Pardeh-khani (literally, "reading aloud from the screen/from the curtain"), is one of those skills through which storytellers give life to illustrations on a large canvas. The time-honored dramatic ...

When the artist Helen Frankenthaler, then in her early 20s, met Jackson Pollock, he was building an international reputation with his drip paintings, in which he flung enamel paints—the kinds used for ...

Picasso's massive backdrop for a 1924 Ballet Russes production is back onstage. The 1924 front stage cloth for the Ballets Russes’ production, Le Train Bleu ...

Several beige, traditional buildings are grouped around an open public square in front of the Sharjah museum, adjacent to Bank Street. Immediately on entering this area, you are transported into ...

Addressing themes involving memory, oblivion and gender, the Argentinean visual artist and muralist, Mariela Ajras, displays her art on the walls of numerous cities around the world such as Barcelona, ...

What you see isn’t a tree or a face, it isn’t a story with a beginning and an end. It is a field of seeing where you are invited to dwell. The color is restrained, the form minimal, yet the work ...

Paintings by Edvard Munch, silverware by Pablo Picasso and a Banksy canvas are among the works on offer at an upcoming ...

Famed American painter Jackson Pollock’s large-format work Number1A, 1948 uses a vibrant shade of blue that had previously been unknown. Researchers analyzed paint directly from the canvas on display ...