His Deathbed News Today

At the Dallas Art Fair, big, colorful paintings dominate.

A vase with some pears? A jug with some bananas? <em>Cutlery?</em> Are you kidding? Painters of still lifes have a lot to answer for – and today’s new breed would be better off tackling air fryers or discarded Deliveroo packaging

Commentary Hong Kong has long been regarded as ‘blessed’ (fudi), partially because political forces coexisted largely peacefully, despite ...

The Magnificent Obsession actors doctor Michael Gottlieb recalls helping legendary actress snuck into the hospital as her actor friend laid dying from AIDS at the age of 59 in in 1985.

Portrait of the Dying Edith Schiele, by Egon Schiele, 1918. Wikimedia Commons. Let’s begin with Egon Schiele’s elbows: the Austrian artist’s swollen left elbow bent over his head in a gesture of support, the right drawn across his face, almost directly under his nose. Here, in his 1910 painting Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait), rendered in muddy browns and sickly yellows, Schiele’s limbs look withered, his joints too pronounced. His elbows frame his face, drawing attention to one arch...