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.

The dual questions of how to pick art, and then how to frame a picture or painting, are popping up more and more lately. Make sense: As we spend more time in our homes, suddenly those blank, bare ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...