Casting light on Joseph Wright of Derby’s love of shadows
The artist’s ‘candlelight’ paintings marry the pursuit of knowledge with wonder and suspense
The artist’s ‘candlelight’ paintings marry the pursuit of knowledge with wonder and suspense
Pomegranates are popular with Instagrammers, but cultures around the world have long prized the fruit for its symbolism and aesthetic appeal
An ambitious exhibition in the painter’s home city of Florence makes clear that his art had a touch of the divine
Labour has been in power for 18 months now, but the arts sector is still very much in the red
A mammoth retrospective in Paris confirms the German artist as one of the world’s greatest living painters – and one of the most elusive
A biography of the Purist artist Amédée Ozenfant brings welcome attention to an esoteric period of modernism
An exhibition of artists’ depictions of sleep at the Musée Marmottan Monet is very far from a snoozefest
At the time of their making, Roman glass vessels were less valuable than their contents – but the few surviving examples are highly prized by collectors
Gallerists come off badly in features by Cathy Yan and Hlynur Pálmason, while Michaela Coel plays a forger in the new Steven Soderbergh
LACMA, George Lucas’s museum of ‘narrative art’ and a revamped London Museum are just a few of the highlights to look forward to
The subject of this painting by Marie Laurencin was actually a French film star, but the work will always have a strong family connection
Co-founders, Galatea, São Paulo/Salvador
The Irish artist is inspired by Philip Guston’s drawings in her London studio, which looks on to a rugby pitch and might be haunted by the ghost of Charlie Chaplin
Best known for his horrifying tales of the supernatural, the author was inspired by his work as a medievalist and the spookiness of antique objects
The artist’s immaculate paintings of cakes, deli counters and pinball machines are in fact odes to imperfection
December’s evening sales have shown that there is still a strong market for Old Masters, with even contemporary art buyers splashing out on pre-19th-century works
The transformation of the Musée des Augustins has brought this former convent into the modern age
Alt text in museums doesn’t benefit only low-vision users – it helps all of us think more deeply about how to understand an artwork
The photographer, who has died at the age of 73, always insisted that he was capturing his subjects as they really were
Heavily influenced by his artistic contemporaries, the architect pushed the limits of design – and revolutionised the idea of the modern museum