In search of Irma Stern, whose paintings still embody the contradictions of South Africa
Irma Stern’s idylls of African life have too often been read at face value – but they mask a more troubled history
Irma Stern’s idylls of African life have too often been read at face value – but they mask a more troubled history
With human contact all but banned, an exhibition about touch was always going to provoke mixed feelings
The knavery and folly of the rarefied art world are writ large in a documentary that picks over the Knoedler forgery scandal
Since the 1960s, artists and designers have regarded the brooch as a miniature sculpture – and an opportunity to try out new materials and techniques
The architect wreathed his buildings in mystical language – but his modern citadels are clearly among the great achievements of 20th-century architecture
The German painter moved freely between Surrealism, Expressionism and Symbolism, as this display in Hamburg reveals
Christie’s just sold a Jpeg file for a staggering $69.3 million. There’ll be a saving on shipping costs, if nothing else...
A pair of Lear’s macaws, named after the poet, painter and parrot-lover, have been released into the wild in Brazil
Photographers and film-makers have long added colour to their images – but does the current craze for colourisation create a false impression of olden times?
A display of interwar posters is a reminder of that utopian moment when artists believed they could invent a new world
Will Martin steps away from his screen and takes his cues from some of the world’s leading contemporary artists
Locked down in Arles, the celebrated interiors photographer François Halard made a series of dreamlike Polaroids that emerge as an enigmatic self-portrait
Gillian Wearing is in an unusually candid mode in her lockdown paintings, writes Martin Herbert – if you take them at face value, that is
Thanks to deepfake technology you can make Rembrandt roll his eyes – and be creeped out by the results
With nightclubs in crisis, photographs of clubbers leave Peter Scott feeling nostalgic for the ’90s rave scene
When Marie Antoinette had a theatre built at Versailles, her play-acting took to a stage of its own – and now this splendid interior has been meticulously restored
Videos have become relics of a bygone era – but they are attracting a new following, glitches and all
Since the early ’80s, the American artist has blurred the lines between performance, politics and conceptualism. A survey at the Brooklyn Museum
Former arts minister Ed Vaizey and leading culture writer Charlotte Higgins on whether the government should be doing more for the hard-hit arts sector
Stringing glass beads was once the main work available to Venetian women – but it's now a protected craft pursued by only a handful of skilled artists