Will the May auctions have a spring in their step?
If sales so far this year are anything to go by, the high-profile auctions taking place this month may not bring much excitement
If sales so far this year are anything to go by, the high-profile auctions taking place this month may not bring much excitement
In the first half of the 15th century, artists drew on the Northern and Italian Renaissances to create a distinctly French cultural flowering
Karlo Kacharava was only 30 when he died in 1984. In Georgia, he is regarded as a one-man avant-garde and his work is now being acclaimed abroad
The artist takes inspiration from Billie Holiday, El Greco and a pair of old Indian puppets when painting large-scale canvases in his East London studio
This year’s laudably international line-up gives plenty of space to photography, performance and video
The Italian designer’s pared-back approach to craftsmanship always prized the practical over the pretty
The pop artist believed that artists should make work for the masses. Decades after his death, his images are everywhere
The maestro’s first contract with FC Barcelona, written on a napkin, has been withdrawn from auction after a dispute between his current and former agents
Part biographical survey, part crash-course in Lacanian thought, an exhibition about the psychoanalyst’s links to art could do with a sharper focus
Maarten van Heemskerck’s expert renderings of Rome inspired his countrymen to see the city for themselves
Though some regard it as provocative, it’s fairer to say that the museum’s sprucing-up of its paintings galleries is thought-provoking
The artist’s vast body of work is full of daring conceits and tantalising contradictions
There are delightful discoveries to be made at this year’s event, but sometimes the central exhibition fizzles where it should spark
The writer’s survey of interwar architecture is a monumental achievement that reminds us that modernism was only part of the 20th-century story
The Louvre looks at the ancient history that inspired a French aristocrat to create a modern form of the Olympic Games
From the recent history of Timor-Leste to world-building in Bulgaria, this year’s shows present a rich and varied cross-section of contemporary art from around the world
At the age of 65, the artist went to Rome a painter and returned to the United States a sculptor. It wasn’t the first time the city had changed him
An exhibition in Antwerp celebrates the Belgian painter’s cosmic canvases – but it’s the 15th-century artworks hanging nearby that really put his achievements into perspective
The Norwegian painter was referring to Ibsen’s play 'Ghosts' when he painted his dream-like landscape of 1906
Despite the painstaking research that underpins the artist’s work, there’s nothing dry about its outcomes – as visitors to the Canadian Pavilion in Venice will discover