The evolution of Japan in the 20th century is mirrored in the images of Japanese photographers who captured the stories and contrasts of a transforming society.
European artists were giving shape to beasts that populate collective imagination long before "The Lord of the Rings" and "Game of Thrones" came along.
The National Gallery's exhibition of international Indigenous contemporary art unites 70 artists from across the world who explore themes such as continuity, activation and relatedness.
This year's three winners explore the possibilities of fragmentation and non-resolution in photography, illuminating reflections on their own lives as an opening to a larger story.
Through the lens of 28 photographers, the images in the current "Hanran" exhibition reflect the profound changes that occurred in Japan during the Shōwa era.
Technical research conducted on Paul Gauguin’s portrait bust of his artist friend Meijer de Haan has revealed significant new information about the artist's use of materials, paint and methods of working.
Opening in Munich, the "Canada and Impressionism" exhibition gives a new perspective on Canadian artists embracing this international art phenomenon and creating their own individual responses.
Over six decades, photographer Dave Heath made several radical changes in artistic direction, but wherever he ventured, there was always a lens of some sort, a poetic and aesthetic brilliance.
Instead of capturing a true likeness, the portraits of Paul Gauguin are inventive investigations of the genre, the artist's explorations of the very idea of what a portrait could be.
