At 86, Manu Parekh is raring to go. His vibrant abstracts titled Flower Sutra, on show in a New Delhi gallery echoes the feelings of a small child let loose in a kaleidoscopic world of light and joy.

One of the best-known works of art at the New Orleans Museum of Art is a regal painting of Marie Antoinette. Painted in 1788 as the calls for revolution grew ...

Art Behind the Meme: Courbet’s Unhinged Self-Portrait The hair-wringing portrait has had its fair share of Internet fame. Gustave Courbet, Self-portrait (The Desperate Man) , 1843–45.

It’s a portrait of Filippo Archinto, a powerful Catholic cleric and diplomat, and it’s one of two versions. The other , in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, portrays Archinto conventionally.