The sophisticated side of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Bruegel may have painted many peasants, but he was one of the most complex – and urbane – artists of his day
Bruegel may have painted many peasants, but he was one of the most complex – and urbane – artists of his day
The museum’s fifth director presided over a difficult period of its history, but left it in a better state than he found it
The painter talks about his attachment to black and the three-dimensional quality of his canvases
Your guide to the best of the leading art and antiques fair, which returns to the Park Avenue Armory this week
The artist’s new body of work reimagines the life and times of the Barbary lion
The great iron structures of 19th-century Britain are important parts of the island’s cultural memory
A major exhibition devoted to the artist restores her – and the craft of weaving – to the heart of the modern movement
The artist brightens up the Collezione Maramotti with paintings that blur the line between abstraction and figuration
The reopened museum in Maryland raises the bar for what we can expect from private collections
Communities past and present are explored in Rossella Biscotti’s film of the excavations at Çatalhöyük
The Canadian photographer talks about ‘The Anthropocene Project’ and trying to capture the spirit of a new geological epoch
The artist saw himself as an exotic outsider, and his voyage to the Caribbean in 1887 as a transformative experience
The American architect, whose career spanned seven decades, has died at the age of 93
A landmark exhibition puts the painter back where she belongs – at the heart of the Impressionist movement
Three decades after the publication of Matilda, Roald Dahl’s heroine has been celebrated in new drawings – and with an unexpected sculpture
Plus: Rachel Whiteread’s near-miss with the Gruffalo and Mark E. Smith is immortalised on a chip shop
What not to miss in London – including an overview of Haiti’s modern art movement and new works by Kemang Wa Lehulere
An evening of performances and three shows of 20th-century women artists are among the events not to miss
The Met’s exhibition helps us understand a region that has always been hard to define, but there are many other stories to be told
Highlights from the seventh edition of Frieze Masters