Art

As Russia bombs Ukraine’s cultural sites, the powerful work in the capital’s Biennial is scattered across Europe

An anniversary year has featured as many scorching takedowns of Picasso’s character as it has paeans to his genius

Southend’s adoption of European culture cannot fix all its problems but it is having shocking social impacts

Celebrating a rediscovery of the Norwegian realist who used colour combinations ‘like chords sounding in perfect harmony’

Jens Haaning’s fans call the stunt a daring conceptual piece of satire. However, a Danish court says it’s a crime

A new exhibition in Basel aims to put women at the centre of the previously male-dominated Fauvism movement

Never a religious man, at the end of his life converting a damp garage into a chapel became an unlikely obsession

A new show reveals the American artist’s many changes of direction, from condemning racism and violence to the calm of everyday life

There was much more to Tove Jansson than the troll family that made her famous

It is eternally imperilled and eternally inspiring. A new book celebrates the great art made in and about the city that makes spirits float

Putting up pictures in a new home leads to considerable pondering

How the Switzerland-born contemporary artist has left his mark across the globe

Ivo Josipović, Croatia’s former president and self-confessed Beatles obsessive, has composed his own opera about the murder of John Lennon

Despite his legacy, "Rubenesque" women were only a small part of the artist's work

There is far more than a cackling cavalier to the Dutch Golden Age painter, the most venerated artist of his time

Toulouse-Lautrec was an aristocrat who recognised in the outliers of society a shared vulnerable otherness

Technology is making forged paintings easier to identify, and giving us a chance to appreciate the art and craft of the counterfeiters

A Dutch royal residence has been turned into a huge public art gallery – a lesson for other royal families, perhaps?

The city’s unloved museum of archaeology shines after a makeover that makes its treasure trove of objects sing

The German artist was an immodest man with little to be modest about

In small town in northern France, the art of producing beautiful objects from shells is being kept alive

The museum that masks Erdoğan’s contempt for Turkey’s artists

Her work is simple and subdued; her life as Rodin’s muse and mistress was anything but

The Helsinki Biennial event highlights how the climate crisis sparked Finland’s artistic and cultural awakening

Does the replication of artwork add to or detract from the original piece’s value?

A new exhibition is based on the life and works of a man who took part in orgies of rape and torture and boasted he had written the “most impure tale that has ever been told”

Europe’s first celebrity is celebrated in a treasure trove of objects at Paris’ Petit Palais

The Tate is the latest museum to try to marry art and food together. It may be too high a price to pay

The UK used to be the obvious point of entry for art and antiquities coming into Europe. But then we ostracised ourselves

The phrase “once in a lifetime” is thrown around a lot. But this artistic experience lives up to the hype

Divided by a continent and a generation, they never met. But a new exhibition shows the ties between Leon Kossoff and Chaïm Soutine

Pirelli’s vast Milan gallery is a temple of daring contemporary art