Alexander Anufriev, a nonconformist artist from the Soviet Union who, after surviving a devastating earthquake in his 20s, spent decades making expressive, brightly colored paintings of a single ...

Stephanie Collie was a highly acclaimed, award-winning British costume designer of multiple television series and feature ...

I’ve been reading these jazz biographies, where aspiring jazz musicians go to a concert and they see some great performer, ...

A rare early masterpiece by the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico has been acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England ...

Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum paid the impressive sum to prevent the rare Italian Renaissance painting from leaving the UK after more than 200 years. Fra Angelico's “The Crucifixion” was set ...

A museum has raised almost £4.5m to save a rare Italian renaissance painting. The Ashmolean Museum, which is part of the University of Oxford, paid £4.48m for the 1420s crucifixion painting by ...

This brief chapter of art history is often overlooked. Now, an exhibition in New York City makes a strong argument for the ...

Art and culture being accessible to all is "fundamental", the Ashmolean Museum director has said, after securing nearly £5 million in funding to save a rare Italian Renaissance painting.

A temporary export bar was granted on the crucifixion painting by the Renaissance master Fra Angelico, to allow the Oxford University institute to raise the £4.48 million needed to buy it in a ...