Art

The people-watching painter’s scenes of dancing and flirting captured a Paris on the brink of a social revolution

The women who made the masterpiece filled it with sex, violence and propaganda

The British Museum has decided that smartphones will be banned from the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition. I see the point – but I also feel the pain

The great tapestry has returned to the land of its birth and can be seen in the British Museum. How could this not be a moment to savour?

Germany has made it easier for families to reclaim artworks stolen by the Nazis. But it looks as if the AfD has other plans

The extraordinary exhibition that shows how artists found the humanity and horror in a city under siege

Back in Britain for the first time in nearly 1,000 years, it has much to say about faith, nationalism and the apparent magic of AI

Silent as a child, she was feted by Warhol and the press before vanishing at the height of her fame

Artist Richard Dadd stabbed to death the father he loved – then spent 42 years producing remarkable work inside the hospital known as Bedlam

We celebrate suffering in art - so why are we so keen to dismiss it in life?

The Ghanaian-born collage artist uses newspaper pages and archival photos to connect stories from Britain, West Africa, and the Caribbean

A photographer who survived Greece’s deadliest blaze has turned her trauma into testimony against neglect and cover-ups

Made from shells in northern Australia and taken to Manchester, they’re now on show in Venice

A new exhibition celebrates the artist and activist forged by New York and Aids

His giant bronze sculptures were designed to endure – but in some cases, fate had other ideas

The artist was hired to design a series of wine labels – and delivered dark visions of alcoholism

Great art should be able to exist without modern moral judgment

Can books still change the world? At the Venice Biennale, the Irish artist contrasts Renaissance dreams with our current crisis

The Hayward Gallery’s new exhibition showcases artworks so black that they seem to undermine the very rules by which we perceive the world

How a small Manhattan exhibition in 1938 helped launch one of the most celebrated artists of the modern age

Women are getting the needle with the president – but history shows many examples of the use of knitting as a tool for protest

Visiting JR’s La Caverne du Pont Neuf, the installation a storm couldn’t stop

Exhibits from the Nova Festival massacre are a poignant reminder that tragedy and grief should not require a political disclaimer

For all his masterpieces like A Bigger Splash, his greatest work may be teaching us to regard the everyday as a miracle

Vyacheslav Akhunov had to keep his subversive art secret from Soviet censors. Now, at 78, he has become an unlikely star of the Venice Biennale

A triumphant National Portrait Gallery exhibition shows how the star created her own myth

Now 93, the much-loved illustrator best known for his work on Roald Dahl books has realised a long-held dream - the world's largest space dedicated to illustration

Her homages to painters from Monet to Pollock only underline her own unique genius

In a Padua chapel that became a workshop, he brought tenderness and complexity to biblical figures - and painting would never be the same

A new exhibition puts the wartime prime minister’s work on show for the first time in 50 years

Tate Britain’s retrospective shows the significance of a dazzling radical

Her San Francisco house was full of children – and her extraordinary suspended looped wire sculptures