The National Gallery in London has revealed it will let a member of the public sleep inside overnight for the first time as the Sainsbury Wing reopens after a two-year refurbishment. At such a ...

With a past shaped by Spanish explorers, pirates, and visionaries, Florida is home to some of the most fascinating historic sites in the United States. Visitors flock here to walk through ...

His paintings were simple, minimal, captured everyday life, and had elements of still-life themes in them. And here we mention the 6 most beautiful paintings by him.

March 24 (UPI) --Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. They include: Advertisement -- Financier Andrew Mellon in 1855 -- Magician/escape artist Harry Houdini in 1874 -- Actor Roscoe ...

IT’S the longest-running kids’ TV show in the world, but BBC bosses have now axed the live version of Blue Peter. In a sign of the times,the Beeb is ditching live weekly TV ­episodes that ...

Growing up in Los Angeles, Justine Freeman spent every day with her grandmother, the legendary arts patron Betty Freeman. Together, they went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to see ...

On 29 June, Vatican City celebrates the Feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul as a public holiday. Both the Apostle Peter and the Apostle Paul were martyred in Rome, and today, they are “joint patron ...

The chairman of the Centrum Rubenianum says a condition report makes it clear the work “is not the real thing" A version of Rubens's ‘The Bath of Diana’, the authenticity of which is disputed.

Three classic L.S. Lowry paintings are heading to auction, including one that depicts a famous, and rare, detail. Paintings by the Salford artist, renowned for his scenes of northern life with ...

It was a catchphrase made famous in the heyday of cinema and was the inspiration for countless punchlines in The Simpsons. Now the Scots actor James Finlayson, who inspired Homer Simpsons ...

The recent discovery of an art forger's workshop reminds us of the long history of fraudulent artworks – here are the simple ...