The director of the National Portrait Gallery will take up his post at the troubled museum in the summer
In documenting the damage humans have done to the planet, the photographer has created a disturbingly thrilling record of environmental disaster
A rustic painting by Annibale Carracci highlights how the act of eating in art has long been tied to class and status
Though their finances can be shrouded in mystery, the Venice Biennale is a good time to pull back the curtain on the funding for major arts events.
Books and manuscripts, 18th-century furniture and Old Master drawings are driving a thriving art market in France
In the Turner Prize-winner’s first major show in Scotland in two decades, his sculptures are best viewed at something of a remove
As Hindu communities around the world celebrate Holi, we look at four artworks that depict this vibrantly colourful festival
The Ugandan-born artist treats her sculpture studio as a strict place of work – except for the occasional glass of Japanese whisky
The San Franciscan painter and ceramicist uses jazz, podcasts and Bay Area nature to help him create fantastical anthropomorphic works out of clay
Who’s afraid of immersive art?
Why everyone loves Keith Haring
Counting the cost of the Venice Biennale
The Dutch artists who were drawn to Rome
Plus: how to eat beans in the baroque style, an interview with Kapwani Kiwanga, the daring experiments of Yoko Ono, the restless spirit of Sonia Delaunay, and a monumental survey of British architecture between the wars
Fleeing persecution in France, thousands of Protestant silversmiths set up shop around Europe – and London attracted many of the most skilful
Koen Bulckens of the Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp explains what makes the painter’s portrait of ‘the weeping prophet’ such an emotional tour de force
Far from hindering budding Barbara Krugers and Andy Warhols, day jobs have often helped the creative process – or are these merely exceptions?
There are plenty of new discoveries to be made at the Paris fair focused on fine draughtsmanship
The painter’s desire for food and drink can be traced throughout a collection of obsessive shopping lists dotted with drawings
Joe Tilson’s stained-glass window in Midlothian was one of his last works and suffuses a 15th-century place of worship with just a hint of grooviness
The Ugandan-born artist treats her sculpture studio as a strict place of work – except for the occasional glass of Japanese whisky
The artist amassed one of the finest private collections of Indian court paintings, an activity that preoccupied him as much as making art
The painter’s final months in the care of Dr Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, a physician as interested in art as he was in medicine, were an extraordinarily productive period
The westward spread of modernist design between the wars was shaped by the migrant experience
The British-Pakistani artist‘s first solo exhibition in the US includes characteristically layered works that speak to the themes of memory and emotion
The Renaissance practice of concealing portraits behind sliding covers or in puzzle-laden boxes is being unpacked in an unusual exhibition at the Met
The Getty Center is celebrating the French sculptor who was deemed a ‘woman genius’ by the contemporary art critic Octave Mirbeau
The Palace Museum in Beijing is exploring Franco-Chinese relations in the 17th and 18th centuries through over 150 artworks and objects
Fifty years on, this biopic of Edvard Munch deserves a new lease of life
Peter Watkins’ 1974 film is no ordinary portrait of the artist – and feels more current than ever as the art-historical canon is up for debate