Some unusual relationship advice has recently caught Rakewell’s eye. Next time you’re nursing a broken heart, why not try drawing your shoe?
The Japanese-Swiss artist's first exhibition in the UK introduces her eerie, fantastical world to a new audience
The venerable tradition of copying out recipes in household books lives on in the most unexpected places
Will the glittering new arts complex bring about a ‘Bilbao effect’ in the southern French city?
Georgina Adam and Andrew Russeth wonder if changing circumstances might not suit bricks-and-mortar galleries down to the ground
The actor offered her services as a life model to the painter when she was 19. One can only wonder that she got away so lightly
Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown studied with their father and had close connections to the Pre-Raphaelites – but their achievements have been overlooked until now
Say it quietly, but this year’s edition of the contemporary art fair is shaping up to look refreshingly normal
The South African painter and collage artist discusses his enduring passion for jazz music
The painter can’t listen to music when she works because she can’t get the songs out of her head – so it’s baseball on the radio instead
Frustrated that memories of more hopeful times are fading, the artist Intissar Belaid is determined to preserve what she can
The director’s sale of unseen footage from ‘In the Mood for Love’ reminds us that the Hong Kong of his films is fast disappearing
Rosemary Hill’s nimble survey shows how 19th-century antiquarians paved the way for modern historians
The spectacular cave monastery of Sabereebi in Georgia is full of frescoes as stunning as their rocky setting
Rarely exhibited since their creation, the intense, jewel-like watercolours of the French symbolist make for exhilarating viewing
The Hayward’s survey of contemporary painting proves that the medium is thriving – with the figurative artists perhaps edging that little bit ahead
Museum directors in France and Italy seem to agree that requiring proof of vaccination is preferable to being shut – although not everyone is on board
Masterpieces of equestrian art are about to get some rainbow-coloured companions, thanks to an augmented-reality makeover
The musical impresario has found a role for his collection of beloved Pre-Raphaelites at the newly restored Theatre Royal Drury Lane
An entrancing exhibition shows how Cosimo I de’ Medici harnessed art to consolidate his family’s grip on power
A set of Misha Black’s famous street signs is going under the hammer – and it’s the closest most of us will get to owning some prime London property
The legendary picture editor Bruce Bernard was famously modest about his own photography, but his portraits of Lucian Freud are peerless
The duo's east London studio is, they say, the world’s cleanest, so that they can be as dirty as they want in their art
For its second online edition, the fair is doubly determined to catch the eye of collectors with museum-quality masterpieces
