The painter may be fond of his iPad, but his longstanding suspicion of the technologies that have tied artists to linear perspective is to the fore here
The French furniture that inspired the look of Disney’s best-loved films also came out of a studio system that required a good deal of collaboration
The exhibition of Persian masterpieces at the Toledo Museum of Art (23 April – 17 July) features more than 100…
Once considered the ‘science of change’, the work of the pre-modern European alchemists is explored in the exhibition at the…
Shirley Jaffe left New York for Paris in 1949, taking a studio in the rue Saint-Victor in the 5th arrondissement…
Presenting over 300 works and 260 treasures, ‘On the Road to Chiefdoms of Cameroon: The Visible and the Invisible’ at Musée du…
Plus: Jessica Bell Brown named head of contemporary art at Baltimore Museum of Art and Kim McAleese appointed director of Edinburgh Art Festival
After recent revelations about the inspirations behind ‘The Northman’, Rakewell regards its director Robert Eggers as a man of refined sensibilities
Akseli Gallen-Kallela is best-known for his pretty lakeside views, but he also yearned for political independence and spiritual fulfilment
Plus: Charles Darwin’s stolen notebooks returned to Cambridge University | Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego reopens | Finland seizes art shipments from Russia worth €42m
The Musée d’Orsay looks at the career of the most important modern French sculptor after Rodin
The Met explores how conflict is presented in the painter’s elemental works, both on land and at sea
The Sainsbury Centre shines a light on some of the leading Scottish women artists of the last century
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France celebrates the bicentenary of Jean-Franćois Champollion’s translation of the Rosetta Stone
Jeremy O. Harris’ latest play unravels the twisted power dynamics between a wealthy white art collector and an emerging Black artist on a Hockney-inspired stage
Wolf Burchard pays tribute to the expertise and open-mindedness of the chairman of Masterpiece who was a pillar of the world of decorative arts
In the late 19th century, Jewish families across Europe created homes that are monuments to the complexity of cosmopolitanism and integration
Rakewell marvels at HBO’s surprisingly true-to-life portrayal of the obsessive art collector in pursuit of a Jean Royère pepper shaker
The painter of bejewelled, fantastical scenes has created his very own urban paradise filled with birdsong and the delicate fragrances of seasonal blooms
The most successful public statues are more than mere three-dimensional versions of photographs plonked on plinths
James Birch recounts the improbable story of how, with help from the KGB, he put on a show of Bacon’s work in the Soviet Union
The Biennale’s artistic director is taking viewers on a surreal journey this year – with women artists at the heart of things
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