When the sculptor was announced for the US Pavilion at Venice, many in the art world declared their unfamiliarity with his work, doubts about the selection process and incredulity that abstract art could speak to the current moment
Once the jewel of a 17th-century collection in Rome, this playful painting is reunited with old friends – or suggestions of them at least
The History Faculty Building in Cambridge, completed in 1968, is hard to love. But love it Will Wiles, a former student, does
As ‘one of the most imperious women in 19th-century Britain’, the Marchioness of Londonderry knew that political status required putting on something of a show
A baroque masterpiece leaves Rome for the Morgan Library & Museum in New York to hang alongside works by Arcimboldo and Annibale Carracci
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