A chequered tea towel, a piece of wrapping paper, an image in a newspaper or a blurred photograph: for painter Daan van Golden (1936-2017), these were not meaningless images, but serious subjects for ...

These visions—which were sensual and often erotic, featuring glittering backgrounds—changed the course of 20th-century art. To the surprise of many, these golden-laced works comprise only a sm ...

Gold clamours for attention ... lend theatrical flair to the Metropolitan Museum’s Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350, which is spectacular in every sense. The show covers the first half ...