"What a brilliant series this is" - Stephen Fry on Twitter 12 December 2020



"Thoroughly researched and cleverly presented, with stunning visuals, Great Art Explained makes you realise that familiarity with a work of art...

The Taking of Christ is a painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. The subject is the moment that the son of God is betrayed with a kiss, and arrested in the garden of Gethsemane.





Caravaggio’s approach...

"Thoroughly researched and cleverly presented, with stunning visuals, Great Art Explained makes you realise that familiarity with a work of art sometimes makes us indifferent to its power" - Forbes Magazine, 9 July 2020

In this video I look at Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Nobody painted Hell quite like Bosch. What we think of as Hell, and certainly what Bosch thought of as Hell is not based on the bible. What we...

The Thinker, captured in a moment of concentrated introspection has come to represent a multitude of ideas about the nature of man and his place in the world. For some it is a symbol of knowledge, others philosophy, even existence...

Edward Hopper’s world was New York, and he understood that city more than most people. He understood that, even though you may live in one of the most crowded and busy cities on earth, it is still possible to feel entirely alone....

In this video I look at Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Nobody painted Hell quite like Bosch. What we think of as Hell, and certainly what Bosch thought of as Hell is not based on the bible....

This is the story about the painting of the raft that shook the world and scandalised high society. Not only for its anti-royalist statements but also for its choice of a black man as the hero. In an age of slavery.



In its...

Women were excluded from almost all cultural and social resources in the centuries from 1400 to 1900 when so much of the world's great art was created. And visual art was almost entirely a male industry before modern times. Having...

The painting was just too complex and detailed to deal with in fifteen minutes, so I made it in three parts.



There are no records to tell us what Bosch or his contemporaries were thinking. There are so many theories...

The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck has baffled art historians ever since it was painted in 1434. It has been dissected and analysed, maybe more than any other painting in history, and in the process, become even more mysterious....

A close reading of Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère through many different critical lenses.

Vincent van Gogh was a largely self-taught artist who didn’t pick up a paintbrush until he was 30 years old.



Just seven years later, he would

be dead.

It was really his last four years where he developed the...

An explanation of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye's paintings

Taking the viewer on a visually stunning journey across the globe, African Masters reveals the story behind the African art scene. Artist Profiles; Nigeria,Ghana, behind the scenes footage of artists studios and workspaces, featuring El...

After three years of renovations, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is reopening the Liliane and David M. Stewart Pavilion with a collection that includes more than 800 works divided into 12 themes.

The auction house is partnering with streetwear brand Highsnobiety to feature classic paintings on a series of T-shirts, hats, and hoodies to appeal to a younger demographic.

Never-before-seen images of late NBA legend Kobe Bryant will begin auctioning on the Cryptograph platform as a collection of photo-NFTs. Photographer Davis Factor, who took the shots early in the star's career, and Tommy Alastra,...

The London-first commission from FriendsWithYou features over 40 inflatable ‘floating’ clouds, creating a

‘portal into a happy place’ where visitors from across the globe are invited to explore, spread kin
dness
and feel...

Nov. 18 -- Marc Glimcher, president at Pace Gallery, talks with Bloomberg's David Westin about this week's art auctions in New York City that attracted more than $1 billion from buyers and looks at the overall strength of the art auction...

Feb.05 -- Like corporations and consumers, many top-end art collectors have been borrowing like crazy given this era’s ultra-low interest rates. Art-secured loans have jumped 40% since 2016, to at least $21 billion globally, according...

London, UK, February 18, 2013

1. Various of artist Roy Lichtenstein's "W
ham"
2. Crash zoom out of Lichtenstein's painting showing close of fire from gun of a figh
ter...

STORY: The National Portrait Gallery in Britain has one of the

finest collections of portraiture in the world. Now
, the
authorities there have walked into a confrontation wi
th some in
the art establishment...

Dec. 16 -- On ""With All Due Respect,"" Mark and John debate whether Sony Pictures will shut down ""The Interview."" (Source: Bloomberg)