Once seen as the lowest genre of art, still lifes can be evocative, original and complex, suggests a new exhibition at Pallant House
The Pontiff touched down in Venice this week, but God knows what he thought of the art on display at the Biennale’s Vatican pavilion
Didier Rykner is the tireless heritage campaigner with a talent for publicity who has become a thorn in the side of the French authorities
If sales so far this year are anything to go by, the high-profile auctions taking place this month may not bring much excitement
Juxtaposing the Nobel Prize-winner’s writing with images of daily life shows that images can be read as well as looked at
Wine has been part of the lifeblood of Crete since the Bronze Age – and one grower in particular is reaching back thousands of years for inspiration
It seems as if arts criticism is becoming a treat for political journalists – but perhaps the job should be treated a little more seriously
In the first half of the 15th century, artists drew on the Northern and Italian Renaissances to create a distinctly French cultural flowering
An exhibition in Venice of the French artist’s work is conceptually dense, but does it work in visual terms?
Karlo Kacharava was only 30 when he died in 1984. In Georgia, he is regarded as a one-man avant-garde and his work is now being acclaimed abroad
The artist takes inspiration from Billie Holiday, El Greco and a pair of old Indian puppets when painting large-scale canvases in his East London studio
This year’s laudably international line-up gives plenty of space to photography, performance and video
The Italian designer’s pared-back approach to craftsmanship always prized the practical over the pretty
The pop artist believed that artists should make work for the masses. Decades after his death, his images are everywhere
The maestro’s first contract with FC Barcelona, written on a napkin, has been withdrawn from auction after a dispute between his current and former agents
In the last 30 years of his life, the artist produce some of his most astonishing work, as this show at the British Museum attests
Horses, mythology and folk motifs abound in the painter's early canvases, which show traces of what would become a distinctive abstract style
As the painter becomes older, the topsy-turvy figures that populate his invigorating canvases are becoming more skeletal
Part biographical survey, part crash-course in Lacanian thought, an exhibition about the psychoanalyst’s links to art could do with a sharper focus
Maarten van Heemskerck’s expert renderings of Rome inspired his countrymen to see the city for themselves
Though some regard it as provocative, it’s fairer to say that the museum’s sprucing-up of its paintings galleries is thought-provoking
The artist’s vast body of work is full of daring conceits and tantalising contradictions
There are delightful discoveries to be made at this year’s event, but sometimes the central exhibition fizzles where it should spark
