Financial troubles drove the artist to the medium – but its atmospheric possibilities suited him well
Cosman was a fine portraitist who captured the leading cultural figures of her time
A year-long travelling exhibition celebrates the continent’s leading artists
How artists such Michael Rakowitz, Kader Attia and Hew Locke are picking up where official narratives leave off
From subway drawings to T-shirt designs, the artist was determined to make his work accessible to all
The photographer talks to Apollo about three decades of collecting other people’s family slides
The civic-mindedness of the visionary landscape designer and architect set him apart from his contemporaries
Avant-garde as she was, the artist was also deeply influenced by Russian folk traditions and history
The AbEx sculptor found endless possibilities in the welding and painting of steel
New Orleans bandleader Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden cuts an enigmatic figure in John Akomfrah’s elegiac film
A display of ink painting in action launched Tuscan wine country’s annual art event
The Dutch polymath’s lifelike drawings are masterpieces of wit and invention
Chippendale furniture and early photographs of the Caribbean are among this month’s highlights
Leonardo’s art may be universal, but his notes and sketches also reveal a man firmly rooted in his age
The first show ever to focus on the art of cutting and pasting offers an impressively expansive view of the practice
Katharine Baetjer’s catalogue is a focused account of the museum’s 18th-century French paintings
Regardless of Brexit, new regulations aimed at curbing illicit trafficking are going to make buying and selling art more complicated
The discovery of an important manuscript reshapes our understanding of early Islamic culture
The virtuoso draughtsman carried several sketchbooks at all times and liked to draw standing up
A tribute to the great painter of London’s urban landscapes, who has died at the age of 92
For a brief period between the wars, the Grosvenor School in Pimlico was the site of a printmaking revolution
In her drawings as in her architecture, the Italian-born Brazilian modernist was 'radical and magical'
The Austrian painter dedicated her career to translating bodily sensations into visual form – often through self-portraits
An exhibition at the Ditchling Museum explores the interwoven lives and pioneering work of designer-artisans in Sussex and beyond
