A large poster on the façade of the Grimaldi Forum advertises the exhibition "Turner, the sublime heritage". The Grimaldi Forum is an exhibition and event hall covering over 70,000 square meters, ...

Portrait of JMW Turner', circa 1841 (1904) - The Print Collector/Getty Images A leading expert on JMW Turner has called for the Tate and National Gallery to explain why two of the paintings that the ...

Anyone wanting to understand why Joseph Mallord William Turner is Britain’s greatest artist need look no further than his extraordinary 1842 painting Snow Storm – Steam-Boat Off a Harbour’s Mouth, on ...

Born in London in 1775 to a lower-middle-class family, Joseph Mallord William Turner was a child prodigy. He enrolled in the Royal Academy of Arts at age 14—interestingly, he intended to study ...

J.M.W. Turner, “Harbor of Dieppe: Changement de Domicile” (exhibited 1825, but subsequently dated 1826), oil on canvas, 68 3/8 x 88 3/4 inches (the Frick Collection, New York; photo by Michael ...

When art expert Rosie Jarvie glimpsed a photo of a painting submitted to Christie’s online appraisal service, she knew it may be something special. “The [submitted] image was poor, and the painting ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The works of English Romantic landscape painter JMW Turner will vie with contemporary rivals and preen next to those of the old masters he hoped to surpass in a new exhibition ...

LONDONLONDON — Britain’s new 20-pound (about $29) note went into circulation Thursday — one that replaces the image of a pioneering economist with a battered warship being towed away for scrap. The ...

Some of his paintings were of shimmering forests. Others were of disarranged body parts. By Neil Genzlinger Alan Turner, who drew on Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and more in acclaimed paintings ...

For nearly two millenia, viewing stones have been collected and displayed for their beauty and evocative qualities. In Japan, they are known as “Suiseiki”; in China, they’re called scholar’s rocks.