New research published in The Journal of Positive Psychology suggests that looking at tragic art—specifically sculptures depicting the suffering of refugees—can produce positive emotional ...

Two-and-a-half centuries after William Shakespeare’s Hamlet came to the stage, the tragic-romantic figure of Ophelia reignited the Victorian imagination in paintings, poetry, and plays.

In 2019, New Yorkers waited in line for hours to see Yayoi Kusama’s show at the David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea — eager to get the Instagram selfie of the moment, posing inside the artist’s ...

The paintings typically use striking splashes ... “You get the sunset and you get the spectacular, tragic explosions. ... It had the sunshine and the noir, the brightness and the darkness ...

Now, reports Nina Siegal for the New York Times, an exhibition at the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam explores the artist’s fascination with Hansken—and highlights her tragic life as a ...

Sadly, Dyer committed suicide just 36 hours before the Grand Palais exhibition opened—his visage haunting many of the paintings on view. “It is a tragic premonition which unites Bacon’s ...

The talented 19-year-old trans-gender artist from Lurgan suffered years of bullying and spent her years battling with gender identity issues and public disapproval before taking her own life in ...