A large poster on the façade of the Grimaldi Forum advertises the exhibition "Turner, the sublime heritage". The Grimaldi Forum is an exhibition and event hall covering over 70,000 square meters, ...

The Peabody Essex Museum sets us sail for summer with its newest show, Turner & the Sea. This is a first-ever look at the British master’s half-century long attraction to ocean. The sea has always had ...

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The painting was discovered after a restoration project last year The first oil painting ever exhibited by Turner is to be put up for auction after being lost for more 150 years. The Rising Squall ...

Born in London in 1775 to a lower-middle-class family, Joseph Mallord William Turner was a child prodigy. He enrolled in the Royal Academy of Arts at age 14—interestingly, he intended to study ...

Some of his paintings were of shimmering forests. Others were of disarranged body parts. By Neil Genzlinger Alan Turner, who drew on Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and more in acclaimed paintings ...