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Well, I knew you just had to click onto this! Couldn't resist …Right!!! This week Artlyst features some of the greatest paintings (and other works...

Love it or loath it, the Turner Prize award always raises a critic's scrutinising eyebrow. Some past prize winners are now household names, others...

A widespread observation is that a great talent has a free spirit, which is often a threatening reality to those who wish to maintain the political...

History tells that where there is big money to be made there is always a scammer out there to fake it. Many artists have copied their heroes in...

Artbytch - Bloody hell it’s depressing this year. I don’t know which artistic musical literary or just general all-around genius I’m mourning from...

Welcome to the Top 10 - Art Disasters "A visual experience is vitalising. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life,...

This week's Top 10 takes a look at works of art that have been hated by some but not always by all. Hate is a subjective state of mind, what one...

Warning… If you are easily offended then please do not open this top 10! Art has been a great marker for social change and most of the works in this...

Some works of art are funny ha ha. Some are funny and we're laughing with them. Some are funny but we're laughing at them. Art is a subjective means...

Artists were very likely the first ‘Rock Stars! Since Caravaggio, they have left behind a legacy of volatile extremes whether it be drunken...

'Come up and see my etchings' was a students catchphrase in the 1940s that rapidly gained a much wider currency throughout the English speaking...

This is not an easy or palatable topic, but art is steeped in violence. The human condition seeks it out, and in doing so glorifies the deity of...