Their names are inextricable from the very definition of modern art – Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso. Along with their artistic milieus in Paris, their muscular and daring creativity tested the ...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal's drawings of nerve cells changed scientists' understanding of the brain. Now, 80 of those drawings are going on display at an art museum in Minnesota.

A rare cubist drawing by Pablo Picasso has been bought by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. Head, a charcoal drawing bought using money left by Henry and Sula Walton, has ...

Drawing is the most fundamentally spiritual — i.e. completely subjective — of all visual art activities. Once considered foundational to all visual arts, the genre no longer enjoys the ...

Head of Bear, a rare Leonardo da Vinci drawing in private hands, will be offered at Christie’s London in July, with an estimate of between £8 million (US$11.1 million) and £12 million.

More than 250 watercolors and drawings on paper, which reveal the French artist's revolutionary style, are featured in a landmark exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art, "Cézanne Drawing." ...

Glenn Lowry, director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art for 30 years, addressed the role of such museums during a visit to Hong Kong’s M+.

And in Ireland, Lismore Castle, a home of the Duke of Devonshire, presents contemporary art “to be celebrated as the heritage of the future”, across three venues.

A study of a bear's head by Leonardo da Vinci has sold for a record £7.5m (£8.8m with fees) at Christie's in London today. It was estimated to make £8m to £12m ($11.2m to $16.9m) but was ...