LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British artist Steve McQueen, a Turner Prize winner and acclaimed filmmaker, has called for portraits of soldiers killed in the Iraq conflict to be turned into postage stamps. Presenting his installation made as official war artist for Iraq at the National Portrait Gallery in London on Thursday, McQueen urged the public and media to back his campaign ...

Spanish painter Francisco Goya rubs shoulders with modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso in an exhibit that opened Wednesday at Milan's Palazzo Reale. "Goya and the Modern World" brings together 184 paintings, drawings and engravings. It sets out to show how "Goya was a precursor of contemporary art: a disturbing, lucid, scathing, sarcastic personality capable of ...

An exhibit comparing Spanish painter Francisco Goya with modern masters such as Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso opened on Wednesday at Milan's Palazzo Reale. "Goya and the Modern World" brings together 184 paintings, drawings and engravings. It sets out to show how "Goya was a precursor of contemporary art: a disturbing, lucid, scathing, sarcastic personality capable to depict human ...

Dutch police say they have arrested two men suspected of involvement in an art heist last year in which masked and armed men snatched two paintings, including one by Salvador Dali, from a museum. The robbers stole "Adolescence," a 1941 gouache by Dali and "La Musicienne," an ...