Art

Protests have rocked the so-called ‘Art Olympics’ over its decision to let Putin exercise soft power

A 1950 visit to Florence inspired the artist’s greatest work. Now he’s back in the places that changed him

The Oscar-winner’s Bounty is a subversively beautiful work about the ugliness of colonialism

The subversive artist was told her work would never travel beyond Colombia - now it tours the planet

Francisco de Zurbarán’s family earned their fortune from textiles – and he earned his reputation on painting the robes of saints and martyrs

The Irish gave 2,000 artists £283 a week, and more than recouped the cost of the scheme. Why not try it here?

The Estonian artist thought the French masters were ‘hideous’ and ‘boring’. How does his own work measure up?

A mesmerising set of drawings never exhibited during the artist’s life show his genius in its rawest form

A new exhibition celebrates the absurd brilliance of designer Elsa Schiaparelli, creator of the shoe hat and the skeleton dress

Emilijia Skarnulyte’s work finds the beauty in painful history and the modern in myth

A new exhibition explores his radical transformation from law professor to abstract art rebel

The abstract painter wanted to make art like he was ‘rushing through a battlefield’ – so he started using his feet as brushes

A new exhibition explores the terrifying beauty of work inspired by the epic poem Metamorphoses

The photography exhibition of undersea beauty that’s also an urgent warning about protecting our oceans

Feuds over Gdańsk’s museums are the latest skirmish in a battle between progressives and the populist right

The Queen of Pop has been spotted in Margate – but residents should be more excited about what the British artist is doing for our town

The painter brought Jesus to Berkshire, found sensuality in Wangford and planned a church based on his own life

A new exhibition explores why the colour inspires artists to create some of their greatest work

The Netherlands’ massive new photographic museum showcases art and celebs – but it’s the images of occupation and hunger that won’t let you look away

Tracey Emin: A Second Life establishes beyond doubt her significance in British artistic history

Do you secretly know very little about art? Are you interested in good stuff that doesn’t need a mortgage to buy it? Then this is the place for you

The great Dane who ignored a teacher’s instructions to throw her paintbox into the sea

Alessandro Mendini turned corkscrews into characters and armchairs into art. An exhibition of his work is on at the Estorick in London

The Welsh illustrator is staring down the barrel of 90, but still raging about an ‘unimaginably awful’ president – and laughing about the Gonzo genius of his own partnership with Hunter S Thompson

A collection of mementoes and testimonies at the War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo is a timely reminder of the devastating effects of war on children

A joint exhibition at Tate Britain reveals the story of two geniuses who did some of their best work in the worst weather

The American-Asian artist’s brutal killing ended a life of huge promise – but her voice could not be silenced

Brazil’s Inhotim Institute, a vast open-air museum, is part botanical garden, part moral maze

From Saturday Night Live to Star Wars, the 1970s reinvented Japan’s warrior elite – now the subject of a major exhibition – as pop mythology

A sleepy Alpine mountain retreat offered shelter for surrealists, LSD prophets and weary hippies

The veteran artist’s World on Fire Timeline maps a century of crisis and resistance

The booty went down in a shipwreck over 300 years ago. Now comes the tricky question of ownership