Oehlen’s deliberately cackhanded “bad paintings”, as he called them, lit up the art market, as a refreshing alternative to the austerity of the then-dominant conceptualism and minimalism.

Police say they have cracked the case of the disappearance of a Brueghel painting from a museum 51 years ago -- with the help of the "Indiana Jones of the Art World." ...

The hidden Picasso portrait shows how science and technology make it possible to peer deep into an old painting’s layers, revealing secrets about both the art and the artist. An infrared image ...

"For the people that get it, it's a joke - it's very funny because the art's so bad." Mr Matthias, from Alsager, lives in a creative household, regularly painting with his step-daughter and ...

Restoring art is not a singular discipline ... the varnish and can proceed. The painting is then cleaned in wider swaths, and the difference between an old, yellowing varnish and the original ...

Sara Drew: My name is Sara Drew, and I work at Center Art Studio in New York ... over the entire surface of the painting, and so satisfying to see all the old yellow varnish come off.