‘I was so absolutely into the villains’: Alex Da Corte
The American artist explains how he looks to his own past to create his devilishly inventive films, paintings and installations
The American artist explains how he looks to his own past to create his devilishly inventive films, paintings and installations
William Andrews Nesfield was a military man who designed elaborate schemes that sum up what people mean when they talk about Victorian formal gardens
Plus: Bernd Ebert appointed director of the Dresden State Paintings Collections and long-lost Brueghel found in Dutch museum
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
While other events are contracting, this New York mainstay remains a force to be reckoned with
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 innovations of artists in the first half of the 14th century created new pathways for painting for centuries to come
A study of the painter’s business practices finds faults with her financial acumen and artistic training – though not everyone will agree
Tessa Hadley is unsettled by Giovanni Bellini’s eerily calm depiction of the murder of Saint Peter Martyr
From Rembrandt in Frankfurt to pictures of puddings in The Hague, there's plenty to see within touching distance of the fair
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
If AI is treated as little more than a fashionable selling point, then its potential to create genuinely innovative art may be lost
This nomadic gallery finally has a permanent home, but can the impressive collection protect it from Poland’s fraught cultural politics?
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
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
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
As the Hungarian-American artist celebrates his 80th birthday, is his brand of conceptual art still as radical as it once was?
A meditative painting by Qi Baishi demonstrates his modern approach to an ancient art form, explains Jeremy Zhang of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
The Flemish castle bought by Rubens in 1635 was intended as a country retreat, and it inspired the artist’s greatest landscapes
Working in the new medium of pastels, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour portrayed the elites of his day in a style to suit the hedonism of the age