Tuymans admitted that he had used Van Giel’s image as inspiration — his painting reproduces the photo’s high angle, the tight cropping that omits the lower half of the politician’s face, and the light ...

Luc Tuymans has returned to China, where he shares a deep connection with the art scene. His influence began in the early 2000s, as his work became visible through China’s art academies and he engaged ...

Belgian artist Luc Tuymans has lost a legal battle in his home country over the alleged plagiarism of a photo of politician Jean-Marie Dedecker taken by Katrijn Van Giel. The photo was used to create ...

Luc Tuymans, “Secrets” (1990), private collection, courtesy Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp; installation view at Palazzo Grassi, 2019 © Palazzo Grassi, photo: Delfino ...

“The element of distrust is key to all the images I make,” says Belgian artist Luc Tuymans, known for his queasily unsettling depictions of figures and scenes from the darker corners of European and ...

In 2001, Luc Tuymans stunned visitors to the Venice Biennale with his paintings exploring the colonial brutality of his native Belgium in the Congo. Now he’s back, this time to let rip at the majestic ...

Eighteen years ago, Luc Tuymans took the Venice Biennale by storm with his paintings for the Belgian pavilion that examined the country’s brutal colonial history in the Congo. Now he is back in the ...

In the early '80s, Luc Tuymans, whose retrospective opens today at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, set painting aside and spent several years making films. That experience sensitized him to ...

Beyond the blur: Arriving late at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art last night, we kicked ourselves for missing remarks on the "Luc Tuymans" exhibition. Luc Tuymans is a Belgian painter whom fans ...

Eighteen years ago, Luc Tuymans took the Venice Biennale by storm with his paintings for the Belgian pavilion that examined the country’s brutal colonial history in the Congo. Now he is back in the ...