In the early 1970s, Sargy Mann – a student of Frank Auerbach and Euan Uglow, and the first postgraduate painting student at Camberwell Art School – was diagnosed with cataracts. He continued to paint, ...

Few paintings in the Museum of Modern Art’s collection inspire reverence quite like Jackson Pollock’s Number 1A (1948). It’s a maze of paint, a ghostly white fog hanging amid sinews of black and blue ...

You might think a top-notch ad campaign would involve renting out a celebrated cultural site or recruiting a high-powered spokesperson. But for its flashy new ...

Caretakers of The Limit (1947), a greyish-green abstract painting by Armenian American artist Arshile Gorky, had been pointing out the telltale signs for years: small drops of paint—brighter than any ...

A painting by New York abstract artist Barnett Newman sold for a record $43.8 million at Sotheby's last night. Onement Vi, a 8.5ft by 10ft dark blue canvas with Newman's distinctive 'zip' running ...