The portrait on the cover of Allen’s latest album is now on display at the National Portrait Gallery – which puts the singer in very rarefied company indeed
Be it heists, attacks on artworks by protestors or the everyday risks posed by visitors, there are any number of reasons why museums should be thinking about how best to insure ar
The well-known painter and his nephew made quite a team in Venice, but after they parted ways the student became a master in his own right
Tate Britain peels back the many layers of the artist’s expansive oeuvre
Quite apart from high-profile collaborations with Cocteau and Dalí, the Italian-born designer had an artistry all of her own
The Menil Collection in Houston presents some 30 works on paper by the American artist, ranging from the 1950s to the ’80s
The artist has lived in Italy and Salzburg, studying under Oskar Kokoschka, but it’s in her peaceful studio in the Australian bush that she feels most at home
A Norman Rockwell baseball scene and a rare pendant linked to Henry VIII are among the most important works to enter public collections recently
Demand for the gemstone has slowed in recent years – making now an ideal time to buy these miracles of craftsmanship
Dorich House, the home and studio of the sculptor Dora Gordine, is a reminder of when Britain played host to the avant-garde
This week we look at four artworks from around the world that explore the act of theft – or have been spirited away themselves
Three Donatello fragments, a portrait by Rembrandt’s star pupil and a sculpture of a well-travelled elephant were among this year’s highlights
Jon Pountney’s photographs of the South Wales Valleys are no lament for a lost industrial past, but a vivid record of an area that keeps adapting to and even defying a changing reality
The Bank of England’s announcement that nature will be the theme of the next set of bank notes has led to some wild-eyed responses
Plus: EU threatens to withdraw Venice Biennale funding if Russia participates, and Italy pays €30m for a Caravaggio
The painter was one of the most successful portraitists in Europe and should be regarded as the father of the English school of painting. So why has his reputation suffered over the years?
The father of English portraiture was a dazzling success on the continent first, and this exhibition of his work in Genoa is the largest of its kind in years
Renoir’s critical reputation has fallen behind some of the other Impressionists in recent years. The Musée d’Orsay asks us to look again
These six years set the course for the artist’s career – and for post-war American art, this exhibition at Princeton suggests
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston marks the arrival of spring with a display that explores how the natural world has inspired artists
In ‘Pompei: Beyond the Clouds’, the film-maker turns living in the shadow of Vesuvius into pure cinema
To mark World Sleep Day, we look at four sculptures, lithographs and engravings that explore the many faces of somnolence
The artist’s friends and peers are widely celebrated, so her relative obscurity is a puzzle. It makes a show at London’s Raven Row all the more welcome
From Charlton Heston writhing on a scaffold in the Sistine Chapel to Kirk Douglas’s dead ringer for Van Gogh, films about painters were prestige studio fare
