We asked the experts for some shortcuts — because “budgets don’t always allow for a professional framer.” By Tim McKeough Framing a piece of art seems simple enough — until you try to do it yourself.

A COLLECTOR who saw some of my Mexican paintings at the San Francisco Museum of Art sent me a telegram: “I like your pictures. Who is your framer?” I replied that I had found in Boston a man who had ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Think of reproductions of Old Master paintings in art books. Each is a hard-cropped rectangle of rich, dark colours ...

London’s Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers exhibition, which closed at the National Gallery earlier this year, offered the chance to see how the artist’s works have been framed by their fortunate owners. With ...

I have three oil paintings on one wall in my living room and would like to reframe all three. Should the frames be the same, should they be different but pick up similar colour motifs (i.e., black) or ...