Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering secrets that could help combat a growing agricultural crisis A selection of the bounty from ...

Diwali, the Festival of Lights, is celebrated extensively in India and worldwide. It symbolizes the victory of light over darkness and good over evil, with traditions including lighting diyas ...

The government’s new value for money tsar will be paid a day rate of £950, the equivalent of a £247,000 annual salary. David Goldstone, who will take up the position of chairman of the new ...

We talk to John Lewis, Saatchi & Saatchi and Leo Burnett about how brands can communicate value in their advertising in original ways ‘We design the price first’, insisted Ikea, in a poster that ...

but it did not escape our attention that Joan Mitchell’s paintings have dramatically increased in value in recent years,” he said. “We’re not a museum. We recognize it might not be great ...

A show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago challenges the timeworn critics’ contention that painting is dead, expanding the idea of what painting can be. By Jane L. Levere This article is ...

From pumpkin picking and crunchy leaves, to road gritters out in force, here's a selection of pictures from across ... he felt like he was "standing in a painting" when working.

AT THIS year’s Frieze Masters, the annual arts fair in Regent’s Park, nine prints of spiders made me catch my breath. The arachnids were a complete set of Ode a Ma Mere by Louise Bourgeois, who used ...

She inherited not only most of the surviving paintings but, with Vincent’s letters to his brother, helped propagate his now legendary status as the unappreciated outsider. She provided not just the ...