Art

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

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