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His work was so painstaking and slow to produce that the models - including a certain trainee barrister - often didn't make it to the end of a portrait. It makes for paintings that seem drained of life ...

In the Retable de la Passion, an oil-on-wood altarpiece from around 1500, a small dog sits among the crowd at Christ's trial. It has grey stubble, a weak chin, and an expression that's unsettlingly human. The dog is Pontius Pilate. -- Read the rest ...

Gouache applied by airbrush -- that was the secret behind the impossibly smooth, vivid covers Robert Tinney produced for Byte magazine across 80-plus issues from 1975 into the late 1980s. Each one took roughly a week to finish after phone calls with ...

Letter: Government action is needed before it is too late, writes Jill Fitzgerald-O'Connor ...

Photographer Robin Hinsch insists that Lonely Are All the Bridges is not a war book - it's a portrait of a society being torn apart and the human threads trying to hold it together ...

Courtauld Gallery, LondonThis quietly tremendous exhibition gathers more than half of the pointillist painter's works, all depicting the Channel coast and sea, full of blizzards of light and a quivering sense of import ...

Freud was a master painter, but his drawings ranged from ordinary to awful. Guess which aspect of his work this show focuses on?

As one of the longest running battles in British heritage comes to an end, the listing of the London arts complex vindicates the audacity of this sensational droogs' paradise ...

Bruce Springsteen wrote and recorded 'Streets of Minneapolis' within days of Alex Pretti's killing, continuing a long tradition of songs as protest against violence and repression.

Other billionaires who own newspapers are doing a better job, a journalism professor explains.