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
Cindy Sherman stars in the fashion designer’s latest ad campaign – and she’s not the first artist who has modelled in this way
Ignacio Zuloaga was once as celebrated as Sorolla, but the artist’s searching paintings soon fell out of favour after his death
In the Hungarian artist’s first exhibition in the United States, the Art Institute of Chicago presents works of cameraless photography and a geometric sculpture
Intricate automata made for Chinese emperors are travelling from the Palace Museum in Beijing to the Science Museum in London
The Met explores the long and productive relationship between painting, calligraphy and poetry through 90 works from its own collection
Paintings commissioned for the gallerist’s apartment in Paris have been reunited for the first time in nearly a century
From pieces of furniture to works of conceptual art, an exhibition in Milan reveals that folding screens are functional, adaptable and always divisive
Two hundred years after the painter’s death, his work still has the power to shock and his life remains shrouded in mystery
After the demolition of some of Chicago’s best architecture, what lies in store for postmodernist landmark the James R. Thompson Center now that Google owns it?
When it comes to Belgian Surrealism, Magritte still leads the pack – but collectors’ tastes are begin to broaden
What did Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly and Lenore Tawney have in common? They all lived cheek by jowl in a wharfside district of Manhattan
Plus: art dealer Brent Sikkema found dead in Brazil | Scottish museums face funding crisis
After the sale of the first The Amazing Spider-Man’ comic for $1.4m, Rakewell suggests that when it comes to the big screen, Marvel should tap into its spidey-sense again
Modern Two in Edinburgh is celebrating the centenary of the birth of the Scottish Pop art icon
To kick off its centenary celebrations, the Morgan Library & Museum in New York is putting on a show of as-yet-unseen photographs from its collection
The Expressionist’s visions of wartime cruelty and portraits of Weimar-era figures go on show in The Hague
A miniature copy of the Apollo Belvedere and a Mesoamerican jade statuette are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
The Court of Appeal’s recent ruling in a copyright case has caused a good deal of excitement, but its relevance to reproductions of artworks remains to be seen
The Estonian artist stretched materials to their limit to create wonderfully distressed and disturbing sculptures
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