Who’s afraid of immersive art?
Do digital techniques to enliven familiar paintings help or hinder our understanding of the art at hand?
Do digital techniques to enliven familiar paintings help or hinder our understanding of the art at hand?
There’s no doubt that the painter was an important and intriguing artist, but that doesn't excuse his behaviour
Books and manuscripts, 18th-century furniture and Old Master drawings are driving a thriving art market in France
Artists may distrust intermediaries but it would be more difficult for anyone to get noticed in the art world without them
Plus: Met employees and volunteers call for the museum to defend Palestinian cultural heritage, and Russian security forces raid artists’s homes before the presidential elections
Plus: tax relief for museums and galleries in the UK is made permanent, and Lucas Samaras (1936–2024)
A proposed statue of the author has caused a fuss among local residents, but does anyone really like public sculptures anyway?
Depictions of lions by leading lights of the Romantic movement and more Academic types reveal humanity’s dark side
Plus: The Palestinian artist Fathi Ghaben has died after being unable to leave Gaza for medical treatment
The conservation of two jewel-like panels by Francesco Pesellino is an opportunity to discover a little-known artist who was highly regarded by the Medici
Behind the artist’s enjoyably exuberant artworks is a serious concern with rewiring language and remaking bodies
The country’s short-lived independence in the early 20th century gave birth to a thrilling artistic movement that is only now being rediscovered
The artist works from her home in the wilds of northern Finland, where she sews textile pieces beside a wood-burning stove to the sound of Sami radio
The wearing of imperial silks was an extremely hierarchical affair. No wonder Chinese textiles appeal to the most discerning modern buyers
A flawless digital copy of the artist’s <i>Basket of Fruit</i> raises the tricky question of how much authenticity should matter to museums
Jeff Koons launched 125 sculptures into orbit on a SpaceX rocket this week. Perhaps they’ll hang out with the Pop art that went on a lunar holiday in 1969
The Reformation was a disaster for British architecture, argues an impressive new book – and the country’s approach to building design has never been the same
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 artist amassed one of the finest private collections of Indian court paintings, an activity that preoccupied him as much as making art