Art Review: ConstableÂs Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings
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WASHINGTON Â The Amtrak run from Manhattan to Washington is, for long stretches, surprisingly pastoral. Mostly whatÂs outside the window is low green land, flat water and high sky, not so different from the Nature that John Constable loved and painted in England two centuries ago. There are other sights too: industrial junk heaps, poisoned wetlands, used-up towns. These are things Constable didnÂt see but feared would come to be.
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âChuck Close,â about the painter, photographer and printmaker by the documentary filmmaker Marion Cajori, truly excels in its depiction of the physical process of making art.
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It's not often that you come across a Caravaggio or Van Gogh while walking around London's Soho, but for the next 12 weeks, the National Gallery is taking its masterpieces to the streets. In a bid to give the public a taste of the collection, the gallery has hung life-sized reproductions around the capital. Each painting is framed and accompanied by an information plaque, and passersby can phone a number for an audio guide of the works. Here's how Londoners  reacted to the famous works on their doorstep ...
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An art detective is poised to solve the mystery of what happened to âThe Battle of Anghiari,â considered by some experts to be Leonardoâs greatest painting.
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After trawling through the museums of London, Times Art Critic Michael Kimmelman finds a small gem in the postcard-sized art of Adam Elsheimer.
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A set of paintings by Jack Vettriano has fetched more than Â£1m at auction. Bluebird at Bonneville, one of seven originally commissioned by Sir Terence Conran, went for Â£468,000 - the second-highest price for a Vettriano after the Singing Butler sold for Â£744,500 in 2004
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One of the world's finest art collections has finally got the kind of clean, modern space that old masters such as Goya, Velazquez and El Greco deserve.
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At a time when big-scale abstraction was ascendant, Mr. Rose painted small, airy, light-filled views of skies and rooftops in an Impressionistic manner.
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Arts & entertainment: The Terracotta Army is the greatest work of mass-production art in history - and whilst the platoon visiting Britain is small, but it's endlessly fascinating, writes Laura Cumming.
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Right now nearly a third of one of the Florenceâs greatest glories can be seen without leaving town, by visiting âThe Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghibertiâs Renaissance Masterpieceâ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The consummate ambition that Chinese artists brought to diminutive scale is a striking feature of the Metropolitan Museumâs small late-summer show.
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Three watercolours by JMW Turner are to be exhibited together in an attempt to stop one leaving the country.
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âChuck Close,â about the painter, photographer and printmaker by the documentary filmmaker Marion Cajori, truly excels is in its depiction of the physical process of making art.
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Can artists do a better job than politicians at portraying politics as appealing? This is a question posed by the four contenders for this year&#39;s Turner art prize at Tate Britain.
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The Metropolitan Museumâs show of tapestry from the Baroque era is stupefying and awesome in its exacting detail.
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Masterpieces are going mobile at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.
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Works by the most famous names in British art over 60 years form the centre of a retrospective show.