The late John Updike’s essays on Joan Miro and other artists are collected in Always Looking, Carl Dixon reports

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What I do: 2012 has been good. I finished art college last year expecting to have to work in an unrelated field, but ended up working in a gallery and as a freelance arts writer.

An Austrian art gallery is encouraging visitors to confront their sexual inhibitions by making them walk through a swingers club to reach an exhibition.

Global warming experts are using the priceless works of British artist JMW Turner to try to track climate change over more than a century.

A classic drip work by Jackson Pollock may have become the world's most expensive painting, it was reported today.

PICASSO’S famed Dream painting turned into a nightmare for Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn when he accidentally gave the multimillion dollar canvas an elbow.

Four of five oil paintings by Gustav Klimt that were the focus of a restitution battle between the Austrian government and the artworks’ Jewish heirs will be heading to Christie's for sale this autumn, the auction house said.

AN oil and gold-encrusted portrait by Gustav Klimt has been purchased for a record-breaking amount by a New York museum.

AUSTRIA’S culture minister yesterday agreed to abide by a court ruling and give up ownership of five Gustav Klimt paintings worth over €125 million to a Californian woman whose family had them stolen by the Nazis.

Austria’s culture minister today agreed to abide by a court ruling and give up ownership of five precious Gustav Klimt paintings to a California woman who says the Nazis stole them from her Jewish family.

John Malkovich is to play the part of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt in a film about the artist's turbulent life.

A striking image of anti-fascist defiance by a renowned German expressionist is expected to fetch up to £8m at auction this week.