“Callers will say to me, ‘Kristin, I need a modern Mary Poppins ... They may throw in other things like a background in art.” Salaries vary, from $80,000 to $150,000 a year.

The profession of governess in the 1800s was widely considered a dismal fate, and paintings from the period ... a position very different from that of her modern-day counterpart.

It wasn’t until Louise Bourgeois’s 70th birthday, when the Museum of Modern Art ... through her art the trauma of discovering at the age of eleven that her English governess was also her ...

A major new benchmark was achieved at Christie’s New York auction of South Asian Modern and contemporary art on Wednesday, where an Indian Modern artwork broke the $10 million mark for the first ...

As an artist I previously had little idea of the conservation threat facing contemporary art – preferring to leave these issues for conservators and focus on the creative process. But while ...

Chèri Samba's Water Problem, 2004. (Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York and CAAC-The Pigozzi Collection) Bodys Isek Kingelez’s U.N., 1995. (Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art ...

Another attempt has been made to build a contemporary art installation in front of a county mansion – after the last plan was called "inappropriate". The contentious piece, a reimagining of a ...