Chinese New Year is nigh – but the zodiac’s most auspicious creature has a storied history of baring its fangs in many other cultures, too
The American star and sometime spy was more than capable of defining her own image, as an exhibition in Berlin makes clear
The South African photographer believes that an artist’s studio can be a hotel room, a playground, a kitchen, a toilet – or even a crime scene
The Central Park Zoo escapee was born in chains, but everywhere from the Upper West Side to the East Village he is now free
Plus: Rubin Museum to sell its building and move to touring model | Pompidou staff settle three-month strike and claim victory
The Courtauld Gallery is exhibiting a series of large-scale charcoal heads, drawn when Auerbach was in London in the 1950s and ‘60s
Pictures made using computer software designed by the late American artist go on display at the Whitney
The Mauritshuis is displaying work by the Dutch Golden Age painter – the first to depict the dodo and the earliest known Dutch artist to produce a floral still life
The art market may have been quiet in 2023, but the handful of major sales point to where the real interest lies
Every summer, the emperor Franz Josef celebrated his birthday in the ‘earthly paradise’ of Bad Ischl, now a European Capital of Culture
The details of this fine woodblock show there’s even more to a majestic print of a 19th-century courtesan than meets the eye – if you know how to look
As an exhibition at the Hunterian in Glasgow shows, the miniature sculptures of the Nigerian artist Justus Akeredolu are a major achievement
Artists in the Soviet satellite states often adopted the forms and techniques of mass surveillance to mordant effect
Trade and cultural exchange meant that the iconographical traditions of East Africa and Byzantium had much in common
The Musée du Quai Branly is displaying an immersive installation that honours the Punu mourners of Gabon
While the appointment or dismissal of directors makes headlines, chronic understaffing is a much more fundamental problem
The artist amassed one of the finest private collections of Indian court paintings, an activity that preoccupied him as much as making art
As the time-honoured tradition taps into our desire for spring, we dig into four seasonal subjects
For one year, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens has an all-female display of works from its collection and an all-female programme
Making a living in the capital has always been a challenge for creative types, but British television was once very interested in how they managed
The artist is better known for painting Ancien Régime aristocrats than for verdant hills and melancholy skies. That may change after an auction at Sotheby’s
Herve Guibert’s ‘photographic novel’ of 1980 about his great aunts, Suzanne and Louise, is a masterpiece of love and obsession
Plus: V&A and British Museum lend Asante regalia to Ghana for the first time | Temple to Ram inaugurated on site of Mughal-era mosque in Ayodhya
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