What did it mean for a wildly successful artist to paint a black elevator operator in stuffy Boston society?
The Belgian Symbolist is at his spookiest and most original when he depicts reality
Displaced from his home in the Colombian Amazon, Abel Rodríguez draws on his memories to document its flora and fauna
Artists who had studios and homes specially built for them often wanted to create spaces that would boost their careers
How Van Eyck achieved his effects is still very hard to explain, but there's no denying their power
The artist's ‘The Death of Chatterton’ was one of the most popular paintings of the 19th century, but what else did he do?
In a career that lasted barely a decade, the American artist forged a distinctive – and highly personal – voice
An important survey of abstract Arab art throws up questions about the influences swirling around in the post-war period
A series of understated yet powerful works make clear that McQueen is as effective in the gallery as in the cinema
Caravaggio and Bernini are the headliners – but the Rijksmuseum’s show reveals the range of artists who adopted the baroque style
The French director’s film about an 18th-century painter and her muse is a visual feast
A survey of black artists from the American South reveals how oppression and inequality couldn’t crush their creativity
The creator of King Ubu and inventor of pataphysics was deeply attached to the art of the book
The emergency money issued by many German towns during the First World War featured a range of designs – including witches, devils and donkeys
A new biography reasserts the significance of the self-described ‘artist plantsman’ among his modern British peers
The artist’s feminist photomontages fill the galleries, while the house is now punctuated with her interventions – and the scent of potpourri
Vivian Suter's paintings, on show at Camden Arts Centre, are marked by the elements of the rainforest where she works – as well as by her dogs' paws
Long out of print, the cards have been reissued by Taschen. But what of the artistic merits of their designs?
Potatoes orbit around barstools and beer spurts out of coasters in the whimsical worlds explored by Sigmar Polke
An exhibition on the textile collections of women from the 19th century to the present day tells us as much about their own lives as about the objects themselves
Uruk may not be as well known as Babylon or Ninevah, but layers of complex, urban life have been uncovered there over the course of the 20th century
A visual history of hundreds of years of veneration, satire, or the breaking of taboos moves from the Virgin Mary to Demi Moore
The painter exerts the force of his personality from beyond the grave in the first part of this unconventional biography
The BBC programme takes a playful look at changing attitudes to nudity in art – from Michelangelo’s David to modern life drawing
