despite the hints at their bond in Goya’s paintings and prints of the Duchess. In The Black Duchess (1797), in which María is seen in her mourning clothes, she wears two rings, one engraved ...

As a new exhibition of his work opens at the Lisson Gallery, American artist Oliver Lee Jackson tells us about how his work ...

While the despair of Goya’s Black paintings is certainly a handy reference, Borremans’ works also draw from the Rococo and Romantic eras. Watteau and Fragonard are among the draughtsmen he ...

“It’s this absolutely extraordinary experience,” Brown explains, “where you’ve just got all these paintings in your ... 18th-century painters like Goya and Fragonard.

It’s the basis for engaging with literature or art. Without empathy, Goya’s black paintings would be nothing more than macabre curiosities from a failing mind. Empathy is also why modern life ...

Deafheaven is neither your standard rock nor black metal band. The blackgaze band has been polarizing to many people for various reasons. For example, black metal purists hate how Deafheaven takes ...

Sated with art, we’re off to lunch, via a walk west through the city’s attractive Literary Quarter. We stroll along a path ...

So much so that he dreamed of putting together a Polke-Goya exhibition at the Prado ... “very closely to what the black paintings will be.” Behind the women, a winged Saturn threatens them ...

The city’s art scene stole the spotlight this week, revealing the force of a creative class intent on stitching together a more cohesive—and self-sustaining—local ecosystem.