As British contemporary art beats all odds to remain a cauldron of inventiveness and passion, Carla Passino discovers which ...

What has stood out most to me in the reopening of the Frick is the extraordinary response it has elicited,” director Axel ...

British designer Vivienne Westwood printed a painting by François Boucher onto corsets, elevating this piece of lingerie to the status of fine art. A creation now on view at the Musée des Arts ...

Drawing on 17th and 18th-century European painting traditions like the still lifes of the Dutch Golden Age and the stylized exuberance of Rococo, von Freyburg reframes relationships between craft and ...

She’s in Marylebone: luxuriating in the temple of rococo gilt and splendour that is The Wallace ... where is housed all manner of treasures, including Francois Boucher’s frothy depiction of Madame de ...

François Boucher’s “Daphnis and Chloe” (1743–45) is a Rococo masterpiece that portrays two young lovers in an idyllic pastoral setting. The painting, inspired by the ancient Greek romance novel of the ...

It’s easy to imagine artist Grayson Perry’s alter ego Claire in her element among the Rococo frills and fripperies ... such as Francois Boucher’s portrait of Mme de Pompadour, (1759).

Yet even here there are delightfully clever touches. François Boucher’s iconic 18th-century portrait of that Rococo “influencer” Madame de Pompadour, with which both Perry and supposedly ...

Perry’s fascination with the collection’s extremes—the frothy Rococo femininity of Boucher’s Madame de Pompadour clashing against the brutal masculinity of its armoury—has long simmered in his ...

Une anecdote, qu'elle soit drôle, tragique, surprenante ou étrange, souvent insoupçonnée, permet d'expliquer un artiste ou son oeuvre. Chaque commence par une question posée par Adèle Van Reeth : " ...