Kya deLongchamps takes us through some moments in the fascinating history of lost masterpieces.

Peter Ackroyd is one of the most productive and elegant biographers writing in English today but is often accused of not uncovering anything new about his subjects. That doesn’t matter, he tells Tony Clayton-Lea

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A quarter of a century in the life of famed artist J.M.W. Turner.

Mike Leigh tells Alan O’Riordan about finally getting his film on JMW Turner to the big screen

19th century artist Samuel Palmer’s entire prints form a new show, Visible Poetry, says Orlagh Ní Arrachtáin.

ONE only has to go back to 2012 to find a Nicole Kidman vehicle that elicited gasps among the critics at Cannes.

Nicole Kidman’s Grace Kelly biopic has been met with a volley of damning reviews after it opened the Cannes Film Festival.

Ken Loach and Mike Leigh will go head-to-head at the Cannes Film Festival.

GIG WISE: You may have missed the news released just before Christmas that Longitude will return to Marlay Park in Dublin on Jul 18-20, with confirmed acts including Disclosure and Ben Howard.

William Scott is a mystery man in Irish art. Hardly surprising when one reads his biography: born in Greenock, Scotland, in 1913, he was reared in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, studied at the Royal Academy Schools in London, and lived in France and Italy for much of his life.

THE 2013 January exhibition of watercolours by JMW Turner at the National Gallery of Ireland includes the entire Vaughan bequest and five other watercolours acquired in recent years.

IMAGINING the Divine: The Holy Family in Art is an exhibition, centred around The Nativity, currently running in the National Gallery of Ireland.

The 2012 auction season is drawing to a close but there are is plenty of art exhibitions to choose from.

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

One of Vincent Van Gogh’s last landscapes and a Turner masterpiece thought by many to have been lost are among the highlights at art auctions this autumn.