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 ...

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.

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.