The punchy paintings of Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers gave action painting a new spin in a sketch with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in 1965
Peter Sellers gave action painting a new spin in a sketch with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in 1965
Portraits of an 18th-century comedian and the ‘real’ Lydia Bennet are among this month’s highlights
The painting at Royal Holloway presents a more reflective side of the tireless campaigner
Beads, bottles, broken plates... these scraps of London’s history provide a welcome distraction in a time of sickness and solitude
With parliamentarians dialling in, the magic of Westminster has evaporated – so there’s no excuse not to move ahead with restoring the Houses of Parliament right now
We've all been visiting museums of the mind – but can also take in the art on our doorsteps
Plus: Zarina (1937–2020), museums in Italy and Belgium set reopening dates, and more art stories from around the world
A new study focuses on the painters working outside the main artistic centres of Italy
An art lawyer considers the implications of deaccessioning works and dipping into endowment funds
A new study emphasises the marriage of thought and feeling in the painter’s work
Sequestered in a French chateau in the 1940s, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Jean Arp, Sonia Delaunay and Alberto Magnelli joined forces to create the ‘Album Grasse’
From Victorian spiritualists to contemporary practitioners, there is a long history of art – and drawing in particular – taking an interest in the unseen
This hard-to-classify book brings together Donald Judd, Japanese aesthetics, and the aspirations of contemporary lifestyle bloggers
From Nikolai Gogol to Susan Sontag, Joan Didion to Olga Tokarczuk: the authors inspiring artists during a time of lockdown
The artist’s designs for Elizabeth David’s cookery books evoke a happy world of fine living and dining
What exactly does it take to create an online exhibition? And will such platforms still be of use after lockdown?
How the women at the heart of the Restoration court ‘weaponised’ portraits that flaunted their influence over the king
The National Gallery’s Artemisia exhibition may be postponed, writes its curator, but there are plenty of ways to explore her work in the meantime
The artist discusses his unorthodox methods, his long partnership with the late Jeanne-Claude, and finally being allowed to wrap the Arc de Triomphe
A ritzy new book brings to life the eclectic tastes and unbridled opulence of aristocratic families in late imperial Russia