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Are things looking up for women in the arts?
Women artists have long been underrepresented on the world stage. On International Women’s Day, we celebrate some notable recent attempts at change
‘Equality is the starting point for my life and art’
Equality is central to Wolfgang Tillmans’ outlook – and it’s what grants his art such power
‘Joy has to be part of the vocabulary of art’
Christopher Le Brun PRA discusses the musical and mythological inspirations behind his work as an exhibition of his new paintings opens across two US venues
Celebrating Alfred Basbous, the artist who breathed life into Lebanese sculpture
Alfred Basbous was inspired by European modernists, but also tapped into an ancient and timeless sculptural tradition
British wartime experience in Italy has been brought to life in London
A nuanced and often surprising exhibition at the Estorick Collection explores British depictions of the Italian frontline towards the end of the First World War
Gustav Metzger (1926–2017)
Once described as the ‘conscience of the art world’, Metzger believed in the responsibility of artists to inspire revolutionary social change
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
Smashing (Kusama) pumpkins; the pop star and the painter; and at home with Maggi Hambling
Rothko, Richter and Rauschenberg star in London’s contemporary art auctions
Auction highlights this month include a surprisingly good group of American paintings at Christie’s London
‘On some level, I’m just looking for good problems to solve’
Theaster Gates is best known for the regeneration project he initiated in the South Side of Chicago. Such social engagement is crucial to his work
McDonald’s has opened its first ‘museum-restaurant’. Honest!
The McDonald’s branch where you can now visit an archaeological site while you nibble your McNuggets
The London auction season kicks off with strong sales
Overseas buyers drove high prices at London’s Impressionist and modern sales
How American artists made watercolour great again
A new exhibition charts the transformation of watercolour painting in the USA, from an overlooked sideshow to a major cultural movement
The tender brutishness of Antoni Tàpies
The Catalan artist’s large, earthy paintings at Timothy Taylor have unexpectedly intimate and spiritual concerns
Acquisitions of the month: February 2017
The finest new additions to public art collections, from a late medieval altarpiece panel, to 62 works of art by contemporary African American artists
How three foreign women transformed the British monarchy
An enlightening new exhibition explores the legacy of three Hanoverian princesses, who married into the British royal family and completely redefined its culture
Ten art events to get to in March
This month’s exhibition highlights include a major Rodin centenary exhibition and the National Gallery’s pairing of Michelangelo and Sebastiano del Piombo
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The artist living inside a boulder in Paris; the portrait of Tony Blair that nobody wants; and the art publisher boosted by the Oscars
The rise of art business courses is a mixed blessing for the art trade
There are more art business courses than ever, but does the discipline need to define itself more clearly?
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