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bad new days: art, criticism, emergency by hal...

What has come after postmodern irony? And who decides whether it’s any honorable? This is a deft...

the freedom principle review - an astounding...

Museum of Contemporary Art,ChicagoMusic can wither in galleries, but this astonishing note...

agnes martin: the artist mystic who disappeared...

In the summer of 1967,Martin left New York and went off-grid before reappearing in New Mexico. The...

the grand tour: rose english peter blake; simon...

Harley Gallery,Welbeck, Worksop; Nottingham modernFrom Rose English’s bewitching rural satires to...

bacchus, booze and balls: the story of alcohol in...

From William Hogarth’s Gin Lane to deliberately amateurish photos of Gilbert & George at a bar,the...

to whom it may concern review - searing images of...

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts,modern York[br]An exhibition of the respected Israeli newspaper’s finest...

sfmoma review: its art history on steroids but...

Heart of inaugural presentation is a collection that includes Warhol and Ellsworth Kelly,but in...

the ethics of dust: a latex requiem for a dying...

Jorge Otero-Pailos applied latex to walls in Westminster Hall to lift out centuries of dirt. But he...

bedwyr williams; cornelia parker review - imagine...

Bedwyr Williamss cosmos of bits is lost in space. Thank goodness for Cornelia Parker’s embroidered...

frank auerbach: painting is the most marvellous...

The octogenarian artist on 60 years as a workaholic,Soho life with Bacon and Freud and how the...

i m a sucker for a good meme, but are they...

An exhibition at the Design Museum makes clear that subversive images are the currency of echo...

muse, lover, lifeblood: how my grandmother woke...

As the Tate’s thrilling new exhibit opens,Olivier Widmaier Picasso remembers his grandmother’s...

kerry james marshall: mastry exhibition review - a...

Met Breuer,recent YorkThis retrospective is a stone-cold stunner which proudly insists on the...

revolution in the making review - unspooling an...

Hauser Wirth & Schimmel,Los AngelesIn its huge new LA space, the commercial gallery has staged an...

the met breuer review - museums new outpost has an...

The Met has a fresh space for contemporary art in the brutalist building once occupied by the...

robert ryman review - more than simply pale and...

Dia Art Foundation,current YorkWorking almost entirely with the colour white, the artist has for six...

the best architecture books of 2015

A new warmth towards brutalism,handsome volumes on Charles and Ray Eames, Le Corbusier, or George...

the artist francesco vezzoli on the ancient world,...

The subject of a unusual documentary has gone from making lavish artworks with celebrities to...

oculus rift will change the world, but can it...

Visitors to a new exhibition in London can confront monsters and wander woods in a dusky,scary...

where are the laughs? british art show 8 is a...

It’s got a kiddy TV talent point to,a Tom of Finland dungeon and a talking bog man. So why does...

to oblivion and beyond: art and science at the...

From William Blake’s vision of a soul leaving the body to Goshka Macuga’s creepy somnambulist,a...

552 hours of surprises: artist brings open mic...

Sanctum,Theaster Gates’s original public art commission, has a top secret schedule of performers...

douglas gordon in ibiza: why i am giving the party...

The controversial artist is punking up Ibiza by filling its streets with voyeuristic films. He necks...

back to black: why us artist taryn simon is going...

Her latest installation,which brings together professional mourners from 15 different countries,...

damnation, dante and decadence: why eugene...

From Van Gogh to Cézanne to Picasso,Delacroix was revered by the very artists who would come to...

ellsworth kelly changed the face of art. at 92,...

American painter’s intense,humming hues were groundbreaking and he’s building on his experiments...

condition: the ageing of art by paul taylor review...

Some of our best-loved paintings have been ravaged by time,and by restoration“Hour by hour, and...

castro, cows and the summer of love: how pop art...

It hit its apex during the late 1960s and became the art movement that reflected the anxieties of...

one second of light by giles duley review -...

Giles Duley captures the emotion on the faces of his traumatised subjects with an empathy...

egypt: faith after the pharaohs review - a magical...

British Museum,LondonWith its miraculously preserved ancient objects – precious texts, gleeful...

space, hope and brutalism: english architecture...

This authoritative study of postwar architects reveals their grand visionIn about 1950,the architect...

portraits in lace: breton women review - returning...

Photographer Charles Fréger’s beautifully austere portraits of contemporary Breton women who have...

art aids america review - gay artists channel...

Bronx Museum,New YorkAids hit America’s artist community hard, and the suffering of the plague...

moholy nagy: future present review - a multimedia...

Guggenheim museum,New YorkTaking in kinetic sculpture, experimental film and even adverts, and this...

what are you looking at? by will gompertz review -...

A hugely enjoyable romp through the legend of modern art from the BBC arts editorThis book is the...

justine frischmann: waking up from elastica to art...

Her band were one of the main lights of Britpop – but when it all fell apart Frischmann regrouped...

tristan tzara exhibition: the man who made dada

A point to in Strasbourg explores the life of the influential 20th century poet,art writer and...

the woman who kept hitler and churchill in...

Modern Art OxfordFrom fascists to freedom fighters to farmyard animals,this staggeringly committed...

christopher wood by katy norris review - the art...

Is Wood the most bewitching English artist of the 1920s? At long last his paintings seem to be...

laura poitras: astro noise review - citizenfour...

Whitney Museum,unusual YorkThe Oscar- and Pulitzer-winner’s art show looks feeble, and worse, or...

last futures by douglas murphy review - utopian...

How the shining architectural optimism of the 1960s and 70s has ultimately produced buildings such...

piet mondrian: the studios edited by cees w de...

From a damp hut in the Netherlands to a quiet haven in Paris,the powerful painter’s many studios...

the face of britain: the nation through its...

One of the country’s best-known historians holds a mirror up to society – but falls back on...

exile, arrest and torture: why brazils pop artists...

Forget Warhol’s electric chairs: Brazilian pop artists in the 60s showed the most extreme violence...

the art of rivalry by sebastian smee review - from...

Picasso and Matisse,Bacon and Freud… this study of noteworthy painters’ rivalries buzzes with...

playing to the gallery by grayson perry review -...

In this edited version of his popular Reith lectures,the artist lifts the curtain on his world –...

violence, victors and victims: how to look at the...

There can be few more contentious subjects than the empire,and few artistic legacies more explosive....

ungender, deprogram, urinate: how post cyber...

finish you know your IRL from your AFK? Ever heard of the mercenaries of slime? And what does all...

kenneth clark by james stourton review - mary...

Clark’s patrician manner,and the ‘powerful man’ approach of his well-known TV series, now seem...

from marx to brexit: tynesides av festival paints...

Socialism is the theme of this year’s multimedia festival,with George Orwell, the Jarrow campaign...

the black years: how nazi art came back to berlin

In a rare exhibition,Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof museum is exploring the dark side of Germany’s...

space, hope and brutalism: english architecture...

Long dismissed as ‘concrete monstrosities’,the civic buildings of the postwar era are...

the militant muse and eileen agar: dreaming...

Two books on the creative lives and ‘heady intimacies’ of Frida Kahlo and the female artists...

banned by the police: the true stories behind...

He was the ‘ravishing villain’ who drank,took drugs and bed-hopped his way around Paris. But...

david hockney ra: 82 portraits and 1 still life...

Royal Academy,LondonThe artist’s humorous portraits, all with the same yellow chair, or are a...

the armory show review - a more thoughtful, less...

The market may maintain cooled but there’s still plenty to see at New York’s art fairs – not...

human for sale: the artist who turned herself into...

Responding to the stalker economy with her own brand of extreme capitalism,Jennifer Lyn Morone™...

shia labeouf: why do i do performance art? why...

Shia LaBeouf’s artworks have been dismissed as stunts and ripoffs – but he doesn’t care. The...

henge benefits: why bill bryson is wrong about...

With his complaints about the cash,the parking and the labyrinthine layout, Bryson is opening the...

the national gallerys new boss: i cant deny i am...

Raised in Catford but speaking and eating Italian,gallery director Gabriele Finaldi talks Brexit,...

a trigger warning on art? a daft idea - but a back...

Stephen Fry was wrong to criticise the use of trigger warnings. distinguished works of art,like...

what my blond jesus could teach germany

As a modern xenophobia grips Germany,artist Ken Aptekar explains why his latest show – 10 years in...

francis bacon in your blood by michael peppiatt...

In contrast to the bleakness of his art,this starry-eyed chronicle shows the painter could be...

enrico davids sculpture orgy: what fun, how weird,...

David’s irreverent sculptures contort into impossible positions,as whether offering themselves to...

unfamiliar territory: artists navigate the...

From Shahpour Pouyan’s creative reappraisal of Persian miniatures to Bissane al Charif’s...

armed and dangerous: inside the worlds largest...

It’s been sent to jail by General Franco,gone swimming in Ibiza and skied down the Alps. Nicola...

rockabilly 82 by gil rigoulet - review

A collection of intimate,hover-on-the-wall portraits capture the appeal of the 50s-themed youth cult...

drowned worlds: egypts lost cities

As a major unique exhibition opens at the British Museum,Charlotte Higgins travels to the Nile Delta...

george condo goes from kanye wests dark fantasy to...

A brush with cancer inspired the artist’s latest show,in a career which has seen him work for...

the explicitly sexual female artists that feminism...

A fresh exhibit in Dallas showcases work inspired by pornography that was hugely controversial in...

from the shadows: the architecture and afterlife...

The life of a ‘dream architect’ whose work transcended the conventions of an eraThey are...

from baroque to bling: how france became king of...

In early modern Europe,as political power shifted, one country became a leader in luxury. Now the...

rotation, rotation, rotation! alexander calder and...

Tate Modern,LondonA conversation with Mondrian in 1930 set in motion Alexander Calder’s glorious...

a naked iggy pop rubs shoulders with 1,000 chinese...

Royal Academy of Arts,LondonThe rock god makes a fine nude model. But he’s no match for Quentin...

raw concrete: the beauty of brutalism by barnabas...

This celebration of all things concrete will please both its aficionados and those who find it hard...

seeing ourselves: from boccaccio to the age of the...

Frances Borzellos study of women and their self-portraits is a cornucopia of the weird,the chilling...

no junk mail please: the man who popped yba art in...

Matthew Higgs’ visionary Imprint 93 was snail mail’s artistic swansong and helped to deliver a...

jonathan joness top 10 art shows of 2015

Jackson Pollock’s dark years,Mat Collishaw’s monstrous animations, Bridget Riley’s debt to...

the best art books of 2015

From Piet Mondrian’s tidy world and Rivera and Kahlo’s subversion in America to a history of...

no mans land review - miamis art basel week kicks...

Rubell Family Collection,Miami[br]A counterblast against pervasive art world sexism, this note winds...

ulay v marina: how arts power couple went to war

Partners in cherish and performance art,Ulay and Marina Abramović made passionate, pioneering work...

peggy guggenheim: the shock of the modern by...

Forget the sleazy prattle approximately her sex life,Guggenheim was one of the great heroines of...

new renaissance: how florence is freeing its great...

They painted magnificent works,from Madonnas to Last Suppers, often earning more than men. But their...

peter conrad s best art books of 2016

Studies of the disorderly life and work of Turner,Monet’s watery abstractions and the chaos of the...

alberto giacometti yves klein review - one...

Gagosian Grosvenor Hill,LondonGiacometti’s expressive sculpture captures the contemporary...

sex, psychos and sharks: did britart change the...

Now establishment figures,the YBAs were enfants terribles when they first caused a sensation, so why...

sketchbooks by grayson perry review - daft...

Part diary,part pornography, part graphic novel – this glorious book gives a feeling of an artist...

made in manhattan: how saul leiter found beauty in...

nowadays his photography is acclaimed by film directors and museum curators. So why were Leiter’s...

christine sun kim: i am not trying to be a freak...

Why would someone born deaf fight to become a sound artist? Christine Sun Kim talks about breaking...

a sparkling set of ivories: the dentist with a...

A tea set from an empress,a golden tusk from a king – Thomas W Evans, a pioneer of pain-free...

the power broker: robert moses and the fall of...

Caro’s profile of America’s greatest town planner is monumental in its own right – a peerless...

another england: how david inshaw changed the...

Myth,symbols and a mysterious sense of place define the works of the West Country’s pastoral...

leading your brain into a crazy pirouette: bridget...

A Bexhill-on-Sea retrospective of intellect-bending curve paintings shows why Riley is Britain’s...

the pixels of paul cezanne by wim wenders review -...

A collection of essays in free verse by the maker of Paris,Texas and Wings of Desire explores his...

the guardian view on the royal collection: if only...

Oliver Cromwell missed a trick. Instead of selling Charles I’s masterpieces,he should have...

doomocracy: the funhouse haunted by trump and...

Described as ‘Hieronymus Bosch meets Fox News’,artist Pedro Reyes’s installation will be a...

this is not america: a chilean artists newly...

Alfredo Jaar’s inflammatory billboard Logo for America lit up Times Square years ago. Now it will...

nairn s london: a grand unflattering tour of the...

Ian Nairn’s amusing and acerbic postwar guide to the capital’s buildings is a classicBefore all...

fischli and weiss: hamming it up at the guggenheim

The Swiss art duo employed everything from sausages to pizza boxes in their deadpan,witty and...

have i got nudes for you: emer otoole on the art...

After her underarm hair caused a stir on national TV,the writer was asked to pose for a nude...

fire the potato cannon! the sisters of perpetual...

At Sisters HQ,anarcho-artist Alannah Currie has challenged a crew of women to select on the...

cy twombly makes me want to plan the art heist of...

Gagosian Grosvenor Hill,London The final great masterpieces of abstract expressionism maintain...

kickended: the enthralling world of crowdfunding...

Meet the artist who’s collected every single Kickstarter campaign that failed to raise a dime –...

from life review - lacking a vital spark

Royal Academy,LondonA confused survey of life drawing offers tiny in the way of fresh observation,...

the dance of death by hans holbein review -...

An illuminating novel commentary gives historical context to Holbein’s famous woodcutsTo take...

artes mundi review - forget the seeds and...

Chapter arts centre and National Museum of Wales,CardiffContenders for the £40000 prize include...

the keartons by john bevis review - how nature...

Richard and Cherry Kearton were pioneering wildlife photographers,who realised that capturing nature...

liverpool biennial review - litterbugs, light...

art night review - london finally catches the nuit...

Live art legend Joan Jonas,Turner prize-winning Laure Prouvost, plus two human rabbits among those...

the republic by seamus murphy review - a nation of...

Seamus Murphy’s pictures of Ireland,ranging from the comely to the everyday and absurd, evoke a...

the imitation game review - artificial, but not so...

Manchester Art GalleryOnly Ed Atkins’ crowd-sourced,poetry-spewing avatar shows signs of life in...

the place to see and be seen: beiruts legendary...

In the 1960s,the Sursock Museum was the centre of Beirut’s cultural life, its salons awash with...

goya portraits at the national gallery review:...

He can be terse and sketchy,he can abbreviate and domestic in on a detail. Stand back and it all...

poppy appeal: why dame vivien duffield s...

Her foundation has given more than £300m in grants to the arts,education, heritage and Jewish...

feeble, callow, moronic: fighting history at tate...

This exhibition should have been a fascinating look at the way we depict meaningful historical...

the chaplin machine by owen hatherley review - how...

Charlie Chaplin was the ideal actor for members of the Soviet avant garde,who cherished the circus...

adrian searles 10 best art shows of 2015

Goya delighted and Ai Weiwei delivered. But 2015 belonged to the Whitney and its glorious look back...

the future is round: why modern architecture...

From GCHQ to the Apple campus,enormous disc-like buildings are popping up around the world. As...

clement siatous: sagren review an evocation of a...

The inhabitants of the Chagos Islands - including the artist - were driven from their homes when the...

pioneer of perversity: pierre moliniers extreme...

High-heeled,corseted, impaled, or auto-fellating ... Molinier’s fantasy photographs open a window...

i sounded like i was having the best sex: juno...

With their heart-shaped hot tubs and mirrors everywhere,Calypso has found that cherish hotels are...

god, sex or evolution - why did humans start...

A current Australian exhibition suggests art was first made to attract mates,signal dangers or mimic...

simon fujiwara: joanne review - a weird journey...

Photographers’ Gallery,LondonIn another of his compellingly odd investigations into the slippery...

peacock and vine by as byatt review - mariano...

Byatt teases out the similarities and contrasts between two multifaceted makers,who each gave their...

brexit? britain has already voted to stay. just...

Boris Johnson is wrong – we cannot claim to love European culture whether we leave the EU. Some of...

so you think you re ugly? don t worry -...

We all seek beauty for competitive advantage. But the tides of taste ebb and flow,erasing aesthetic...

the space artist who saw pluto before nasa

He has seen the impossible,painting outer space long before man got there. He has made book covers...

boogie wonderland: disco s hottest 70s nightclubs

Bill Bernstein’s photographs of disco’s glory years capture the energy and glamour of novel...

shomei tomatsu: the man who changed japanese...

Sometimes brilliantly surreal,always with an unsparing documentary eye, Tomatsu's images...

martine syms at the ica: people act like art is a...

More likely to quote cultural theory than Beyoncé songs,this domestic-schooled, high-achieving Los...

flora, fauna and fortitude: the extraordinary...

Three hundred years after her journey into the South American rainforest to observe its plants and...

seeing uluru changed my life: bruce munros...

For his Field of Light installation,the British artist flew 60000 lightbulbs to the red heart of...

british vogue at 100: how a magazine pictured a...

It wouldn’t be ‘Vogueland’ without Shrimpton and Moss,Bailey and Beaton, but this new...

the vanishing man review - velazquez as he lives...

A lost painting draws Laura Cumming into the mystery of art itself in this eloquent (expressing...

why are there no great british nativity scenes?

You’ll find plenty of bleak midwinter paintings,but don’t go looking for British artworks of the...

when love takes over: how robert indianas artwork...

The American artist’s care for sculpture is more illustrious than the Mona Lisa. What a pity most...

hippies tainted my love for botticelli | letters

Botticelli certainly worked his “magical charms” on me (Botticelli genius takes on common...

the silhouette by georges vigarello review - how...

The practice of making a dark shape is named after one of Louis XV’s ministers. Its history...

georg baselitz review - colossal study of ageing,...

White Cube,BermondseyThe 78-year-stale’s Germanic imagination remains as courageous as ever with...

how western art collectors are helping to fund...

The appetite for antiquities from the Middle East is being met by Isis,who are looting ancient sites...

leslie waddington obituary

Art dealer who set up his Mayfair gallery in 1966,where he gave lifelong support to British artists...

frame by mark cohen review - small town america in...

The street photographer’s strange way of looking at the world enlivens everyday scenesThe term...

nadia chomyn obituary

Autistic artist who had an extraordinary ability at a very young age to draw realistic depictions of...

soldier, poet, painter: how david jones became...

Whether in his vivid war epics or portray the valleys in Wales,David Jones observed the world...

lets glow: skaters descend on liverpools glow in...

Like a weird volcano glimmering in the centre of a once rundown park,Koo Jeong A’s fresh art...

the last women in china with bound feet: they...

The photographer Jo Farrell tracked down 50 surviving women whose feet had been bound. Many could no...

sharmeen obaid chinoy: i know there will be an...

Her films approximately ‘honour’ killings and acid attacks won Oscars – and caused fury in...

was the national gallery scammed with a fake old...

Orazio Gentileschi’s portray David Contemplating the Head of Goliath,until recently held by the...

inside: artists and writers in reading prison...

HM Reading prisonAi Weiwei and Steve McQueen are among the artists doing time at the prison where...

kittens, kanye and kiss and tells: the artist who...

For 15 years,hack-tickled Cory Arcangel has captured and caricatured the digital world. His new show...

marisol: the forgotten star of pop art

Once as famous and influential as Andy Warhol,the artist, who has died aged 85, or fell into...

the final countdown: beloved liverpool venue the...

There’ll be an ice crypt,a marionette as enormous as a house and a spaceship that flies … the...

raw meat, live sex and snakes: the dangerous art...

She has spent 50 years beguiling and outraging audiences in equal measure. The artist provocateur...

artist and empire review - illustrations minus the...

Tate Britain,LondonThis rambling survey of imperial British art peaks when the empire strikes back...

pop art: a colourful history by alastair sooke...

Documentary maker Sooke’s authoritative and readable study of pop art should appeal to newcomers...

mona hatoum: each person is free to understand...

At a major retrospective of her work at the Pompidou Centre in Paris,the artist Mona Hatoum looks...

giorgione the tragic lover and sarah lucass...

The Royal Academy celebrates a Renaissance remarkable,Patti Smith opens up approximately...

stan douglas: the secret agent review - the spy...

Victoria Miro gallery,LondonA multiscreen rendering of Joseph Conrad’s novel plays with cold war...

flint house: the building that must be stroked

It’s a miracle house that shows the whole of geological evolution. And it’s the most tactile...

a distracting game of spot the fake: the waddesdon...

British Museum,LondonThere are many masterpieces among the treasures collected by Baron Ferdinand...

the best art books of 2014

The year saw modern art stars prove thoughtful in print while Whistler and Rembrandt drew perceptive...

he has wrapped the reichstag - now the artist...

Christo and Jeanne-Claude,his late wife, became celebrated for their extraordinary sculptures, or...

praise the lord and pass the rattlesnakes: the...

Mack Wolford coiled venomous snakes round the arms and necks of his congregation. One,called faded...

video artist jeremy bailey: there s vulnerability...

Enthusiastic,awkard and sometimes topless, the YouTube provocateur and allotment-time engineer...

aylan kurdi - and six other shots that shook the...

Tank Man,Migrant Mother, and a young Syrian boy are proof that photographs can be the most almighty...

matthew miller obituary

Matthew Miller,who has died aged 50 of a heart attack, was a quiet visionary who pioneered a...

mona hatoum review - electrified, if not always...

Tate Modern,London[br]Currents surge, wires spool and buzz, or the political and personal fuse in...

appy medium: could instagram start an artistic...

In this exclusive essay,broadcaster and cultural critic Jonathan Meades ponders what whether social...

electronic superhighway review - 50 years of...

Whitechapel Gallery,LondonThis uneven, fascinating and terrifying prove presents a history of...

the best american art shows of 2015

A thrilling display approximately the alignment between jazz,art and politics rocked Chicago, while...

a satsuma sistine chapel - and other strange...

For a nation on a Bake Off sugar high,a new contest to find the best food art is a delicious...

collecting the art of protest at brooklyns...

Prompted by the Occupy movement,a gallery in Brooklyn gathers art produced by revolutionary...

andreas gursky and richie hawtin: experiments in...

The photographer,distinguished for his huge, detailed panoramas, and has joined forces with the...

sao paulo biennial - artists react to brazils...

Some artists return to the land and one suggests interspecies communication could be a solution as...

art house: los angeles and new york artists tackle...

From a crazy golf course in LA’s Skid Row funded by Mike Kelley’s estate,to New Yorkers asking...

london doesnt need a smithsonian - but how about...

The US museum giant cannot compete with London’s world-class spaces – it should do a Guggenheim...

bret easton ellis and alex israel: california uber...

The American Psycho novelist and the pop artist possess joined forces to create artworks evoking the...

national museum of scotland to open 10 new...

Museum to get recent fashion gallery and space for exhibits including Dunlop’s first pneumatic...

shia labeouf, quentin blake and a grenade in the...

Uproar as the first ever ‘non-artists’ win Britain’s biggest art award. Plus the Hollywood...

honour scotland s real heroes in george square |...

The country’s most well-known public space should not be sporting statues of...

the hateful eighth: artists at the frontline of...

As campaigning on both sides of Ireland’s abortion debate intensifies ahead of the May...

eyes on the prize: the must see art and design of...

Elton John shares his photography collection,Tracey Emin gets into bed with William Blake and David...

folk by aaron schuman review - tradition and...

Images of exhibits in a Polish museum shed light on the photographer’s family history and the way...

william wegman: the dog artist who still leads the...

notorious for his works featuring his Weimaraners,the artist has two new shows committed to his...

andres serrano on donald trump: i never speak ill...

He is an artist with a diabolical reputation,a former drug dealer who photographs corpses and once...

omer fast: present continuous review - teasing...

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art,GatesheadThis mesmerising collection of film and video work by...

piero manzoni and me: gavin turk on the artist who...

Tickling the very concept of art,the Italian artist gained fame by tinning his own profundities and...

kenneth anger: the occult never quite goes away

At 88,the film-maker, writer and occultist is still creating his dark magic, or this weekend is...

patrick zachmanns best photograph: an anti mafia...

‘They’re real tough guys. When they’re approximately to win violent,they lower the blinds’ I...

us ad agency removes world famous nairobi artwork...

Described as an ‘art heist for good’,agency Deutsch acquire taken JR’s prints from the roofs...

jean etienne liotard review - a joyous time...

Royal Academy,LondonThis subtly radical artist build rarely seen smiles on the faces of his...

bedlam: the asylum and beyond review - missed...

Wellcome Collection,LondonThis jumbled exhibition tracking changing attitudes to mental illness...

making connections: how victorian artists plugged...

The pioneers of 19th-century engineering revolutionised global communication,laying a transatlantic...

how 2015 may have marked the end of the art...

current records were set at auction,but overall the art market cooled as the frenzy around young...

tomb raiders: what treasures could lurk inside...

Egyptology is entering another golden age,with dazzling new discoveries of hidden chambers under the...

hair mad dante gabriel rossetti s obsession with...

There is a precedent for the Taylor Wessing portrait prize’s “obsession with red-haired young...

can art stop jihad?

He was at school with two of the 9/11 hijackers. Now artist Abdulnasser Gharem is on a mission to...

artwork showing sylvanian families terrorised by...

Isis Threaten Sylvania by the artist Mimsy is removed from Passion for Freedom exhibition at...

nested fish and golden triangles: adult colouring...

These mathematical patterns,by Alex Bellos and illustrator Edmund Harriss, are intended to engage...

the top 10 female nudes in art

From the ravishing Venus of Urbino,past Ingres's sensual Odalisque, to the feminist riposte of...

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