On the 98th anniversary of the death of Antoni Gaudí, we take a look at cutting-edge designs by some of the most influential architects of the last century.
Brian Clarke hopes his favourite medium has a bright future, but that’s no thanks to museums or the Church of England
The foundation should never have pursued the copyright case against Lynn Goldsmith and it should be grateful it lost
Six leading figures in the art world discuss the challenges of collecting and showing video art
The performance artist explains why he loves being from Iceland and takes us on a tour of public sculpture in his hometown
The Japanese ceramicist enjoys the tranquility of working in an old building surrounded by rice fields – despite the occasional unwanted visitor
The painter’s atmospheric restaurant interiors and precise still lifes put him at the top table
A painting of Marie Antoinette’s favourite dog has sold over the odds, but life for Pompon and other rococo-styled pooches was no walk in the park
Plus: Ilya Kabakov (1933–2023), and the rest of the week’s top stories
The 12th edition of the event tackles the city’s complicated colonial histories
The Tate Modern considers how photography and painting have spurred each other to new heights
The Louisiana traces the evolution of the Icelandic artist’s career
The Holburne Museum engages in a clever bit of matchmaking, with rarely shown paintings and all kinds of love tokens
The most expensive manuscript to ever be sold at auction and an impressive collection of Dutch Mannerist prints are among this month’s highlights
The painter of fear and loathing was also a keen observer of the natural world
From Keith Sonnier in Florida to Richard Serra in London, we have put together a list of minimalist masterpieces to see this week
The British Library’s audio-visual tour of the animal kingdom doubles as a weird and wonderful history of natural history
The much-debated new displays suffer from weak artworks, tokenism and terrible lighting
Edward Behrens on the finalists for this year’s Loewe Foundation Craft Prize
This richly coloured glass is a window to a key moment in the history of science and of princely patronage, says the Rijksmuseum’s curator Maartje Brattinga
A publicity shoot for ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’ caught the photographer and his subject at an unusually vulnerable moment
The painter went to great lengths to make her careful compositions look effortlessly spontaneous
The Sainsbury Centre’s new director is taking a more touchy-feely approach to displaying the permanent collection
After a period in the doldrums, pieces by the best 18th-century makers are back in demand
