Art

Why the most celebrated painter of all time is a criminal’s dream come true

300 years after Maria Sibylla Merian first ventured into the Amazon, the artist and scientist’s influence is still felt today

Who really was 'The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo'?

In Ukraine a group of artists is confronting the conflict in the spirit of Goya, Dix and Picasso

A new exhibition reveals a previously hidden side to the landscape and marine master JMW Turner

As a new collection in Vienna shows, the rich have stopped lending art to public galleries, and are opening their own spaces instead

An exhibition of Frank Brangwyn’s work at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft is full of colour and life – like the artist himself

Heath Robinson’s cartoons of elaborate contraptions provided cheer during the world wars, as a new exhibition of his work illustrates

Ukrainian artist turned soldier Hamlet Zinkivskyi is decorating his war-torn hometown... on the orders of his commander

When the bronzes were created, Nigeria didn’t exist as a country the way it does today. So, is returned the right word?

A fire that destroyed a library in Venice 455 years ago has inspired a superb Anselm Kiefer exhibition on loss and retrieval

Fujiko Nakaya: Nebel Leben is the first comprehensive survey exhibition of the visionary sculptor outside of Japan

Yes, art can shape our reality. But the metaverse can show us what could be possible in our future

Just as art allows us to expand our constructs, so does this new technological terrain. This is the future artists like myself paint

Organisers wanted to shake up a German contemporary art show. They did that, all right

Can urban art build bridges instead of walls? Eleven artists across Europe have come together to prove just this

Far more than the Britpop bands, it was the Young British Artists who best personified the Blair era

A self-confessed “unleashed exhibitionist, chasing headlines”, Collin Dufresne lived the life but on her terms

A new exhibition celebrates Pompeii’s erotic art and artefacts, many hidden from public view since their excavation in the 19th century

The best way to protect, and honour, culturally important objects is to put them on public ownership in museums

The early leader of the Dadaist movement blurred the boundaries of style and genre, writing poetry as good as his art, making sculptures as good as his collages

Tiny sculptures made by an 85-year-old tell an epic tale at the Venice Biennale

Russia is absent from this year’s edition of the world’s biggest international art exhibition. But the main talking point is a decisive move away from domination by white men

An exhibition highlights the wonders of the Venice serenaded by Canaletto and the dangers faced by the glorious city in the sea

But, we also need art that exposes us to different ways of thinking about them

A definitive, exhaustive exhibition of the Renaissance artist is a once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster of a show

The 72-year-old took what she thought was an unwanted jacket from the Paris museum. Her newly acquired coat was actually a work aimed to recreate the garment worn by Picasso

A new exhibition celebrates - and questions - the brief flowering of creativity in 1960s Lebanon

The National Gallery’s new Raphael exhibition hints at where the artist’s talent might have led him had he not died young

A collection of artworks all have one thing in common: it only takes paste or Sellotape to make public the anger, horror and pity felt at events in Ukraine

An exhibition at Bodleian Library traces 600 years of Anglo-Dutch history through beautiful medieval manuscripts, prints, maps and animal stories

The unexpectedly timely Postwar Modern at the Barbican showcases the ability of refugee artists to create great work after escaping conflict