Many artists who made their names in figurative work are now creating a different sort of portrait. By Amanda Fortini IN EARLY 2021, Jordan Casteel, the painter known for her tender, exquisitely ...

Where would Van Gogh be without sunflowers? Monet without water lilies? Or O’Keeffe without her close-ups of black irises, whose voluptuous contours reminded some people (to Georgia’s great annoyance!

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The water meadows that stretch across 50 acres of the Southrop Manor estate in the Cotswolds, home of the ...

David Hockney has also created a 10ft by 16ft work in which he appears twice, looking at his iPad flowers A David Hockney exhibition featuring 20 flower paintings created on an iPad as well as a large ...

Over 100 masterworks by 59 artists spanning the Ming and Qing dynasties are on view at China Institute Gallery in New York. Zhu Da (1626–1705), “Flowers on a River” (1697), hand scroll; ink on paper, ...

In the 17th century, Holland was in bloom. Following a bout of “tulipmania” in the 1630s, it became fashionable to visit the Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam’s botanical garden, to catch a glimpse of a ...

Today, we bring you another focus challenge, in which we invite you to spend uninterrupted time looking at a piece of art.