At the Grand Palais, FIAC celebrated a symbolic homecoming last week. It had been 17 years since Paris's flagship art fair last welcomed the world's top dealers exclusively inside the landmark building off the Champs-Élysées. Collectors and art lovers swarmed the 168 booths, admiring and buying in a first-day rush rarely seen in the French...
NEW YORK -- On Tuesday night, a painting dashed off by Picasso in just one day in 1964 became the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction as it rose to $106.5 million. It took Christopher Burge, Christie's premier auctioneer, eight long minutes to raise the picture, dubbed ''Nude, Green Leaves and Bust,'' above the hitherto unattainable...

Society tends to prefer creative types who neatly fit the pigeonhole labeled Other. The artist as solitary, tormented, possibly insane genius is among the most durable staples of the modern imagination. It is also comforting. That's not me, you can tell yourself. I may not be creative, but at least I'm not crazy. The modern foundation of this...
Edvard Munch (12. december 1863 - 23. januar 1944) var en norsk maler og en af de tidlige repræsentanter for ekspressionismen. Han var brodersøn af Peter Andreas Munch.
Blandt hans mest kendte malerier er Skrig (Skrik). Over halvdelen af hans værker er på Munch-museet i Oslo.