Features

As Europe faces its worst refugee crisis since World War Two, there is no better time to celebrate emigre art in the UK

Agnes Martin’s serene paintings give pause for thought

Highlights from the fair, which has found a new leader in Fabrizio Moretti

‘If an artistic language is very complex, it can’t be used to communicate.’

British Museum brings together the best historic examples of a challenging graphic medium

Six of the most significant acquisitions to be announced by museums around the world

As the Wadsworth Atheneum reopens, Rachel Cohen considers the legacy of one of its greatest benefactors

The King is dead! Long live the King! Portraits of Louis XIV and his infant successor, Louis XV

As some UK museums face cuts of up to 40 per cent, Bill Ferris and Alistair Brown discuss whether they should consider charging entrance fees again.

Elizabeth Bishop refused to regard her paintings as art, but the best of them reveal the same interest in surfaces, and attitude to the world as her poetry

Why paint a curtain? A look at the long tradition of depicting trompe l’oeil curtains in painting

In search of the lost art of the Greek bronze

Even finding some of the artist’s fragile works was a challenge