Joseph Mallord William Turner ranks among Britain's most famous artists, celebrated today for landscapes that rankled his ...

Janice Turner, mother of artist Sean Kingston, was sentenced to five years in prison after she and her son were convicted in ...

No one took greater imaginative leaps and risks than Turner – he’s Britain’s greatest artist - IN FOCUS: It’s 250 years since the birth of this prodigious son of a barber and a wigmaker ...

An antique collector made a huge profit after buying an oil painting for £400 and selling it for £1.9 million. He later ...

Lisa Pumphrey Turner, 73, a Washington artist who sat on the boards of several cultural and philanthropic organizations, died Feb. 26 at her home in Bonita Springs, Fla. She had amyotrophic ...

On View Five Artist-Collective Nominees Go Beyond Empty Talk to Deliver Acts of Solidarity in Turner Prize Exhibition. With a shortlist composed entirely of collectives, this year's Turner Prize ...

Joseph Mallord William Turner’s ‘Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight’ (1835) Photo: National Gallery of Art, Washington/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ...

Mr. Turner enrolled at City College, where he was on the fencing team. He started out as a mathematics major but changed to art, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1965.

The Turner Prize, a prestigious annual award given to British artists (or artists working in Britain), is meant to provoke controversy. It says so right on the website of the Tate museum, which ...

The Turner Prize recognizes work created by British artists over the past 12 months and awards £25,000 ($31,000) to the winners. Meanwhile, shortlisted artists receive £10,000 ($13,000).

On Tuesday night, in an announcement likely to baffle the art world, the Turner Prize’s jury said that all four artists, who had been shortlisted for Britain’s leading art prize back in May ...