The performance artist explains why he loves being from Iceland and takes us on a tour of public sculpture in his hometown
The painter’s atmospheric restaurant interiors and precise still lifes put him at the top table
Edward Behrens on the finalists for this year’s Loewe Foundation Craft Prize
This richly coloured glass is a window to a key moment in the history of science and of princely patronage, says the Rijksmuseum’s curator Maartje Brattinga
A publicity shoot for ‘The Prince and the Showgirl’ caught the photographer and his subject at an unusually vulnerable moment
The painter went to great lengths to make her careful compositions look effortlessly spontaneous
The Sainsbury Centre’s new director is taking a more touchy-feely approach to displaying the permanent collection
After a period in the doldrums, pieces by the best 18th-century makers are back in demand
The country has been producing wines for centuries, but they are only now getting the global recognition they deserve
Video art makes the running in the art world – but commercially, it has some catching up to do
Larry Silver’s history of how northern European artists depicted other cultures could have taken a broader view
The novelist Louise Welsh is spooked by the Belgian artist’s menacing ‘Great Judge’
The reconstruction of cities devastated by the Second World War took radically different forms, depending on the circumstances
Marco Ferreri’s ode to eating may be one of the most disgusting films about food ever made
A catalogue of the museum’s unrivalled collection of silver and gold is a thing of beauty
A show about the many variations and chequered history of the fabric even lets visitors see what’s worn under the kilt
The Menil Collection in Houston looks at the groundbreaking work of a curator who brought a new generation of American artists into museums
Three hundred years after the composer moved into his London townhouse, what does the art collection he amassed there tell us about his music?
The painter who never stopped seeing her subjects as individuals described her works as ‘pictures of people’ rather than ‘portraits’
Pedestrianisation means that one of London's finest churches is now the centre of attention again
The fair returns to Manhattan with a strong focus on designers, women artists, new discoveries and forgotten stories
From votive offerings to anatomical models, wax is the perfect material for blurring the boundaries between art and life
When Simon Pettet moved into Dennis Severs’ House in Spitalfields he began to channel the 18th century in the 1980s
