Artists have long found beauty in the mundane, but choosing to represent everyday subject matter is a privilege that requires the luxury of time
An exhibition at the Musée Marmottan Monet considers how artists have tried to represent feeling through the centuries
Sixty years ago the Royal Academy announced the sale of a cartoon by Leonardo da Vinci to fund its activities, but did it make the right decision?
All that remains of the city’s two medieval castles is the empty shell of a single tower, now imaginatively restored by Hugh Broughton Architects
As the National Gallery prepares for its upcoming bicentenary, its director Gabriele Finaldi discusses his vision for the future
Judging where to draw the line between maintaining a safe silence and tacitly endorsing the war in Ukraine has become a pressing matter
For all his care to balance the traditions of his Venetian forebears with the style of his US contemporaries, Afro Basaldella came to be seen as an Abstract Expressionist
Chauncey Hare was compared to Walker Evans and Diane Arbus, but he came to find the art world as repressive as the corporate world he loathed
Plus: Documenta removes artwork at centre of anti-Semitism allegations
Recent industrial action by railworkers in the United Kingdom has got Rakewell thinking about the difference between men and marionettes
The artist produced some of his most innovative and political works at the age of 80 by burning and torturing his canvases and also turning to textiles
Curator James Green takes a close look at a carving by Bamigboye, a sculptor who represented the beating heart of his community in the early 20th century
The dealers of Mayfair and St James’s have banded together with the Philharmonia Orchestra for a special series of concerts this year
The artist refused to paint people, preferring instead to focus on remote landscapes and natural phenomena
The Musée d’Orsay’s survey of the French sculptor is admirably thorough, but his art was more modern than we’re often led to believe
As museums make promises to return looted works of art, provenance is now of paramount importance in the market
The American artist's studio is split across two rooms – an office and an atelier – in her apartment in Berlin. It is a space ruled by harmony, she says.
Plus: Smithsonian board votes to return 29 Benin Bronzes | UK places a temporary export bar on £19m Poussin painting | Marina Lambraki-Plaka, the director of the National Gallery in Athens, has died at the age of 83
Rakewell despairs at the recent announcement that K-pop sensation BTS are taking a hiatus. Is this really the end?
The American artist’s ‘Black Chapel’ is an imposing addition to the manicured lawns of Kensington Gardens but is it where you’ll find perfection?
The graphic designer Jean Carlu was the first artist to create a label for the historic wine estate in 1924, marking the beginning of a long-standing tradition
As the UK falls behind in the global market, Jane Morris considers the route to reclaiming its competitive status
They're now little more than popular amusements – but with their discomfiting realism, wax effigies were once considered fit for royalty
The atmosphere of the Paris-based artist’s studio depends on the work she is creating – at times it is a sanctuary and at others a battlefield
