More expansive lost areas, often the lower portions, were completed only as line drawings without color fill, however, in order to restore the functional integrity of the paintings without ...

In the world of art, everything is about authenticity. This becomes quite evident every time a ‘previously unknown’ or ‘assumed lost’ work of some master surfaces and the debate about ...

“Everybody talks about Paradise Lost and nobody reads it,” runs one of Reade’s epigraphs in his book What in Me Is Dark, but these days it can be hard to find many people who talk about it eithe ...

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Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative process can conjure something far darker than Vantablack. Do some ...

Preview the Jameel Prize exhibition, coming to London's V&A, with a focus on moving image and digital media The winner of the V&A and Art Jameel’s seventh international award for contemporary art and ...

It’s John Milton’s time now ... from the public arena and concentrating on finishing his masterpiece, Paradise Lost. But Milton had completely lost faith in his countrymen, who made the ...

Denise Lovett may look the part of a country bumpkin when she arrives penniless and in search of work at the doors of The Paradise ... dashing and reckless owner, John Moray, a grieving widower ...

One day in 1970, the Californian artist John Baldessari looked back over the paintings he had done over a period of almost two decades. And he decided to burn them all. Baldessari had begun his ...

In 1979, buoyed by the success of his AIR Studios in London, George Martin decided to open another studio on the island of ...

However, their old rival, John Kreese (Martin ... of Lost‘s appeal, but so were the mysteries of the island itself. There’s more happening than meets the eye, and this uncharted paradise ...