All too many people are entirely settled in their opinion that Norman Rockwell’s art presents a “falsification” of reality: in short, he is charged with utopianism. This opinion is false, but nearly universal...

While art has always been a major part of John Bramblitt's life, it wasn't until he completely lost his sight that he tried to paint for the first time. From the age of 11, Bramblitt's vision was gradually stolen from him by epilepsy. By the time he was 30, seizures had rendered him completely blind, sending him into what he calls "the deepest, darkest hole" of depression. "All of the hopes and dreams that I had for my life...

In major museums around the world, great works of art are hidden away from public view. What are they – and why can’t we see them?

On March 18, 1990, robbers stole $500 million in art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Author Stephen Kurkjian explains why anyone would bother to steal work so priceless it couldn't be sold.

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It appeared to be a mundane parcel like scores of others lovingly posted across the ocean in the run-up to the holiday season: a package labelled “art craft/toy” with a value put at $37 (£24) and the message “Happy Christmas”. But when US customs officers examined the contents, they found a stolen Picasso painting worth at least $2.5m, which had been lost for 14 years. The 1911 Cubist masterwork, La Coiffeuse (The Hairdresser), had been registered missing from...

Brooklyn-based artist Dustin Yellin brings a collection of his glass sculptures from the ongoing Psychogeographies series to New York City Ballet for the third presentation of Art Series, which welcomes contemporary artists to our Lincoln Center home.

Artist Rob Gonsalves produces a rare mix of creativity and optical illusions.

A painting of two Tahitian girls by the French artist Paul Gauguin has been sold for $300m (£197m), making it the most expensive work of art ever sold.

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If you think a few glowing stars on your ceiling are impressive, just get a look at these insane bedroom murals from Hungarian-born, Vienna-based artist Bogi Fa

With references to Breaking Bad, Tetris, and beloved paintings like American Gothic, Adam Lister’s deconstructed watercolor style provides a unique take on the familiar icons and objects that surround us.

The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have an amazing gift for the world in 2015: a newly available collection of 40,000 digitized Asian and American artworks. The Smithsonian says its vast collection has mostly never been seen by the public, and the institution is making the collection available for free public use. The art dates from the Neolithic period to present day; the Smithsonian says the collection includes...

Peter Schjeldahl on a new show at MOMA: “The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World” captures an art form in crisis.

How Norman Rockwell conceived the ultimate image of holiday burnout.

At first glance, these images look like like photos of glaciers and icebergs afloat on tranquil and frigid seas. The truth is somewhat more interesting, however – they're enormous finger pastel drawings by U.S. artist Zaria Forman.

A man who punched a hole through an £8million Claude Monet painting has been jailed for six years and banned from all galleries - despite claiming he collapsed onto it due to a heart condition. Andrew Shannon strolled calmly into the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin before attacking the 1874 work Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sail Boat, which was left needing two years of repairs. The 49-year-old, who later underwent a quadruple heart bypass...

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Unsurprisingly, given these social and aesthetic shifts, scholars and critics alike have started to speak of an end to postmodernism. The current paradigm has been variously called altermodernism (curator Nicolas Bourriaud), cosmodernism (literary theorist Christian Moraru), hypermodernism (philosopher Alan Kirby) and automodernism (cultural theorist Robert Samuels). We ourselves, linking the social and aesthetic changes to changes in capitalism, have argued for the use of the term metamodernism