Mark Rothko

Dancer is offering 25 pictures for sale as part of new Firedance exhibition in London

Monet, Giacometti, Rothko and Lichtenstein among the big names making record prices

Lichtenstein and Rothko draw bidders while Christie’s sells most expensive painting in history

Art auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York expected to net between $2bn and $2.5bn

The Irish-born artist doesn’t do creative block. Nor, as Beijing hosts a retrospective of his work, does he have time for westerners who ‘keep banging on about Ai Weiwei’

Every January Turner’s watercolours are put on show as requested in Henry Vaughan’s bequest

1967 painting by Irish-born artist of his lover George Dyer soars above guide price at London sale

The Dublin-born artist’s piece ‘Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards’ dates from 1984

Slow Art Day asks gallery visitors to spend 10 minutes looking at one work. It’s harder than it sounds

Patrick Scott: January 24th, 1921 - February 14th, 2014

Art and food are intersecting in interesting ways, from the inedible beauty showcased on Nigella Lawson’s ‘The Taste’ to Abigail O’Brien’s bread exhibition – although not all art-food experiments end happily

Opinion: The female midriff remained an indecent zone until someone invented the bikini

A five-part summer series analyses the current state of the global fine art and antiques market