As part of its “Made in Britain” sale on March 25, Sotheby’s London will auction Bridget Riley’s The Ivy Painting (1998). The British painter has explored many styles and techniques but is best known ...

A catchy name gives traction to an art movement: Abstraction Expressionism (AbX), Pop Art, or Op Art, short for “optical art One of the artists most associated with the latter was the English painter ...

ALMOST NO ONE does ceiling paintings any longer. “I think it’s because we build towers nowadays,” says Mark Getty, who chaired the board of trustees of the National Gallery in London between 2009 and ...

At Spruth Magers gallery, “Bridget Riley: Painting Now” brings together 17 paintings the British artist made over the last 10 years and six from the 1960s, when she was just getting started as an ...

On an early May evening in Rome, Italy, just as the azaleas were beginning to open on the city’s famous Spanish steps, a red carpet was being rolled down another set of steps overlooking the Villa ...

An exhibition of work by British artist Bridget Riley has opened at Kent's Turner Contemporary. The show includes the ...

With exclusive behind-the-scenes access, seldom-seen footage from the archives, insights from admirers, experts and contemporaries including Tracey Emin, Michael Craig-Martin and Martin Freeman, and a ...

She got away with it – and flourished – because her naturalism was uncompromisingly modern. She didn't depict the natural world as a literalist inventory of mountains and trees, but rather recreated ...

Bridget Riley has created her first ceiling painting for the British School at Rome (BSR). The artist, best known for her murals and wall paintings, has created her vast new work in the BSR’s foyer, ...

The UK artist Bridget Riley, 91, will unveil her first ceiling painting in Rome this spring. The work, made using the artist’s so-called Egyptian palette, will cover the four barrel vaults of the ...