Art

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

Female voices are set to dominate the arts world in 2026

Behind locked doors in museums and archaeological sites, priceless works gather dust while the world waits outside

A new nativity display in the centre of Brussels is so widely detested that it might have to be taken down early

An extraordinary Florence show brings together the friar-artist’s sacred visions and the Medici politics that shaped them

In Margate, the woman who is arguably Britain’s greatest artist takes on the elements – and wins

The last time the world got over-excited about a new technology, people lost a lot of money - and ended up looking pretty stupid. The AI bubble risks being just the same

A brilliant Nigerian Modernism exhibition shows the defiant beauty born from oppression

What they couldn’t take they tried the destroy, using statues for target practice - they even shot all the mummies