Plus: Endeavor, the owner of Frieze, goes private for $13bn; and Kim Conaty is the Whitney’s new chief curator
A Poussin Last Supper and a rare oil painting by Remedios Varo are among the most exciting works to have entered public collections over the last month
Despite being separated by more than a century, the two photographers shared a distinctly hazy aesthetic
Betty Sims-Hilditch explains how a background in set design and a commitment to emerging artists inform her new roaming gallery project, Artground
Do digital techniques to enliven familiar paintings help or hinder our understanding of the art at hand?
A new life of the auteur lays bare the obsessiveness behind his films and what it cost everyone around him
There’s no doubt that the painter was an important and intriguing artist, but that doesn't excuse his behaviour
The sculptor saw possibilities in steel that no one else had before, creating works that altered viewers’ perception of space
In documenting the damage humans have done to the planet, the photographer has created a disturbingly thrilling record of environmental disaster
The reality star may think of herself as a ‘furniture person’, but the Donald Judd Foundation disagrees – and is suing her for allegedly buying fake tables
The director of the National Portrait Gallery will take up his post at the troubled museum in the summer
A rustic painting by Annibale Carracci highlights how the act of eating in art has long been tied to class and status
Books and manuscripts, 18th-century furniture and Old Master drawings are driving a thriving art market in France
An exhibition at the Ashmolean suggests that for Rubens and his peers, graphite, ink and chalk were not simply preparatory tools but a means of reinventing matter
In the Turner Prize-winner’s first major show in Scotland in two decades, his sculptures are best viewed at something of a remove
As Hindu communities around the world celebrate Holi, we look at four artworks that depict this vibrantly colourful festival
Fleeing persecution in France, thousands of Protestant silversmiths set up shop around Europe – and London attracted many of the most skilful
Koen Bulckens of the Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp explains what makes the painter’s portrait of ‘the weeping prophet’ such an emotional tour de force
Far from hindering budding Barbara Krugers and Andy Warhols, day jobs have sometimes helped the creative process
There are plenty of new discoveries to be made at the Paris fair focused on fine draughtsmanship
The painter’s desire for food and drink can be traced throughout a collection of obsessive shopping lists dotted with drawings
Joe Tilson’s stained-glass window in Midlothian was one of his last works and suffuses a 15th-century place of worship with just a hint of grooviness
The Ugandan-born artist treats her sculpture studio as a strict place of work – except for the occasional glass of Japanese whisky
Jackie Wullschläger’s biography invites us to take another look at a painter whose canvases make a direct appeal to the eye
