The Mark Rothko abstract painting “Orange, Red, Yellow” has set a new auction record for contemporary art, fetching nearly $87 million in a sale that showed the strength of the art market despite global economic gloom.
Francis Ford Coppola rewrites the rules of cinema in his mishmash 3D mystery Twixt. Also on the show we visit the world's biggest art market and we meet the artist Ana Tzarev who was flung into the art world at the age of 72.
Paris is hosting the first ever French retrospective in France of paintings by impressionist Berthe Morisot. She was one of the only female painters to break through in the male-dominated 19th century. She was a protégée of Edouard Manet and was married to his brother. But Morisot actually influenced Manet - she persuaded him to start painting outdoors, for example.
We're heading for Paris' Pompidou Centre to see "Matisse: Pairs and Series". It is a reassessment of one of the art geniuses of his time (1869-1954). The show is curated by Cécile Debray, who also curated the Stein Collection exhibition at the Grand Palais last year. It has an intimate feel to it, as she has chosen coloured walls that makes visitors feel at home, as though they had been invited in a private salon.
For many people Northern Ireland is synonymous with sectarian violence and bloodshed. For Belfast-born artist Dermot Seymour, his childhood memories at least, are of the countryside and cows.These two realities meet in his artworks: vivid paintings that combine farmyard animals with Orangemen and surveillance helicopters.
We are going back a few centuries – 17th century Italy with Artemisia Gentileschi one of the rare female painters of the Baroque Age. The Musée Maillol is staging the first French retrospective of this artist who is not very famous. Born in 1593 in Rome, she was born to an artist Orazio Gentileschi.
Art experts announced Monday that they have found evidence that a work by Leonardo Da Vinci may be hidden on the original surface of a wall inside the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence that has not been seen in more than 400 years.
Nobody had ever heard of Marcel Storr before this exhibition. Outsider artist embodied a pure and rough artistic movement: it is all about impulse. Storr, who lived and died in poverty, drew many churches and also some futuristic cities surrounded by incredible skylines. This is Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis', Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner' and Terry Gilliam's 'Brazil', all in one.
He’s taking the audience to nether world. Director Tim Burton gives a behind-the-scenes look at his wacky, spooky and wonderful imagination in a new retrospective.
Today's show is also taking a look at the other events of the season in Paris.
A version of Edvard Munch's iconic painting "The Scream" will go on sale May 2 at the Sotheby's auction house in New York, where it is expected to yield at least $80 million.
