Evidence of the sculptor Seamus Murphy’s industry can be found all over Cork. This year is the 50th anniversary of his ...

the paintings of couples whose composition recalls that of Fra Angelico's The Annunciation and his very personal interpretation of pop art. He sometimes slips into the canvas with his round ...

Stone Mad was first published in 1950, and opens with an account of Murphy’s father delivering him to O’Connell’s Art Marble Works on Watercourse ... s most memorable projects was the Church of the ...

In the New Testament Mary speaks only four times, beginning with the Annunciation ... The Black Madonna—a revered painting of a dark-skinned Virgin Mary and Child Jesus, said to be the work ...

It’s hard to put into words how much we enjoyed visiting Florence at the end of our most recent trip to Italy. Our ...

We were buzzing with anticipation as our train pulled into Florence station – our itinerary was jam-packed and we knew the ...

Orazio—at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has gone a long way toward solidifying her reputation as a dynamic and original artist, one of the very few female painters of her time bold ...

A new exhibition at the Jane Austen House in England includes six artworks that are going on public display for the first ...

A new stage production of The Picture of Dorian Gray conveys the cost of posturing online.

Jean-Claude Silbermann joined André Breton’s acolytes at 18. Now 90, he’s showing paintings at Independent, the art fair, and says Surrealism is “an attitude toward the world.” ...

By using surviving artifacts, eyewitness testimony, accurately reproduced uniforms, original firearms and the thorough study ...

A huge painting by Mark Rothko, thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars, has been removed from display in a Dutch museum after it was damaged by a visiting child. Conservators will now ...