Cesar Mammadov draws inspiration from his home city of Baku and the landscapes he encounters on his travels
The imposing architecture of the Palazzo del Banco di Napoli makes a fitting stage for the artist’s gruesome scenes of greed and retribution
Laura Poitras’s documentary about the photographer is an inspiring account of her blurring of the lines between life, art and activism
Rakewell wonders what to make of the news that Quo Vadis’s doors are moving to the Groucho club
In her score-settling memoir, Roselyn Bachelot calls out ungrateful artists and time-serving bureaucrats
The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is one of Germany’s most important cultural institutions, but why is its name such a relic from the past?
The popstar is believed to own an artwork which has been missing from Amiens since the First World War
The interdisciplinary artist tries to find a balance between isolation and connection – and once tried to make friends with an imaginary pelican
Ever since F.W. Murnau adapted Bram Stoker’s Dracula for his seminal film Nosferatu, the vampire has haunted the modern imagination
A show at J/M Gallery compares art curating with the shadowy ways in which AI now shapes our online experience
A panel discussion with Peter Parker (writer) and Florence Evans (art historian, curator and dealer). Chaired by Samuel Reilly
The Jamaican-British artist has a penchant for picking up other people’s rubbish and falls in love with the collectors who come to see his work
Plus: John Akomfrah and Grayson Perry knighted, Louvre to limit visitor numbers, and the rest of the week’s top stories
There’s no denying the actor’s talents, but Rakewell can’t help wishing he would finally direct that film about Eadweard Muybridge, ‘the father of motion pictures’
A donation of 220 works by Philip Guston from the artist’s daughter and a portrait of one of Louis XV’s most controversial aides are among this month’s highlights
The new-look National Portrait Gallery in London and the International African American Museum in Charleston are among the highlights of the year ahead
Working in an Italian city with no Roman past allowed painters and sculptors to put their own spin on classical antiquity
Exhibitions to look forward to include some major retrospectives and shows that pick up where the Venice Biennale left off
After the uncertainty of the pandemic, the art market bounced back in 2022, but what challenges will the new year bring?
The prospect of more towering edifices on the horizon is hardly cheering, but there are more grounded projects to look forward to
Joshua Reynolds, Sarah Bernhardt and Pablo Picasso are all being celebrated in anniversary events this year
The artist rifles through archives and our collective imaginations to reshape what we think we know about the past
The Slovakian sculptor poured and moulded plaster into creations that evoke the body and the natural world in equal measure
A disappointingly static display at the V&A will make you long for the stage
