As ideas for exhibitions go, Monochrome at the National Gallery sounds cussedly dull and joyless. A show restricted to painting in black and white? What an austere, hair-shirt proposition.

There is no visible trace of art at Jaykumar Shankar’s office ... and close friends know that his passion is hand-painting black-and-white photographs. “This tradition is as good as dead ...

“This anonymous painting is a great rarity in British art, as a mid-seventeenth-century work that depicts a black woman and a white woman with equal status. It is not a portrait of real ...

In one of the rarest depictions of Lord Ganesha, artist Saju Thuruthil, in his painting, has created ... ochre green, black, white and very rarely lapis lazuli. Not adhering to the scientific ...

“This anonymous painting is a great rarity in British art, as a mid-seventeenth-century work that depicts a black woman and a white woman with equal status. It is not a portrait of real ...