Patricia Albers, Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, A Life, Knopf, 2011, 544 pp., $40. There are many ways of writing about the life of a famous artist. One is the scholarly way, another is the fawning, ...

The painting, Portrait of a Lady, was taken from a gallery in the northern city of Piacenza in 1997. It was thought to have disappeared for good until gardeners clearing away ivy found it ...

For many years The Lady in a Fur Wrap was thought to have been painted by 16th Century master El Greco. However, experts have now undertaken a detailed scientific analysis of the masterpiece ...