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Nur: Light in Art and Science
This major travelling exhibition looks at the significance of light in Islamic art and science. The display spans more than…
‘I was so absolutely into the villains’ – an interview with Alex Da Corte
‘I was so absolutely into the villains’ – an interview with Alex Da CorteThe American artist explains how he looks to his own past to create his devilishly inventive films, paintings and installations
Architect Ricardo Scofidio dies at the age of 89
Plus: Bernd Ebert appointed director of the Dresden State Paintings Collections and long-lost Brueghel found in Dutch museum
When attacks on art become art
While museums are desperate to stop climate actions involving works of art, a gallery in London has put defaced paintings front and centre, tomato soup and all
Asia Week New York is more of a cultural hub than ever
While other events are contracting, this New York mainstay remains a force to be reckoned with
Wolfgang Buttress creates a buzz in Liverpool
The artist has been making installations about bees for years. His apian interests are now the subject of an exhibition at the World Museum
The Sienese painters who sparked a revolution in European art
The innovations of artists in the first half of the 14th century created new pathways for painting for centuries to come
Was Artemisia really bad with money?
A study of the baroque painter’s business practices finds faults with her financial acumen and artistic training – though not everyone will agree
The rise of performance art in Renaissance Italy
An accomplished musician as well as a painter, Lorenzo Costa was perfectly placed to capture the changing fashions and shifting social etiquette of his day
The singular vision of Svetlana Alpers
As a selection of her essays makes clear, the eminent art historian has always been committed to looking as a means of understanding
‘The painting ought not to feel measured – something horrible is happening’
Tessa Hadley is unsettled by Giovanni Bellini’s eerily calm depiction of the murder of Saint Peter Martyr
‘Bandjoun Station is an imposing proposition’
Clad in the symbolic designs of artist and founder Barthélémy Toguo, the arts centre in Cameroon is breaking new ground
The shock of the boreal – ‘Northern Lights’ at the Fondation Beyeler, reviewed
Canadian and Scandinavian painters approached their respective landscapes in distinctive ways and with differing levels of realism
Kate de Rothschild’s approach to quality control
The Old Master drawings collector has described herself as ‘an undisciplined cockapoo’ when it comes to buying – but each piece must be of the highest calibre
The brave new world of Brazilian modernism
Artists were just as dedicated to the avant-garde as their peers in architecture and music, but were their efforts as radical?
Gilty pleasures – Versailles in the 21st century
With new leadership, and restored rooms that haven’t looked this good since the Ancien Régime, is Versailles entering another golden era?
Beyond TEFAF – the shows to see in and around Maastricht this month
From Rembrandt in Frankfurt to pictures of puddings in The Hague, there’s plenty to see within touching distance of the fair
The military man who marshalled England’s gardens
William Andrews Nesfield designed elaborate schemes that exemplify what people mean when they talk about Victorian formal gardens
Who will put the art into artificial intelligence?
If AI is treated as little more than a fashionable selling point, then its potential to create genuinely innovative art may be lost
New kid on the bloc – behind the scenes at Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art
This nomadic gallery finally has a permanent home, but can the impressive collection protect it from Poland’s fraught cultural politics?
The palace of Caserta has lost nothing of its power to astonish
Designed in the 18th century by Luigi Vanvitelli for Charles VII of Naples, Italy’s answer to Versailles is as dizzying today as it was 250 years ago
What Severance says about our fractured selves
The sinister corporation in the dystopian office drama really cares about art, but the paintings on the walls only highlight the workers’ sense of alienation rather than relieving it
In the studio with… Catherine Wagner
The San Francisco-based photographer has moved into a new space, and she’s getting used to a more communal environment – but order is still all-important
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Women have often been thought susceptible to demonic influence, and creativity can be seen as a form of possession – notions reclaimed by artists in ingenious ways