Art

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

Since the 2008 crash, Spain has been remaking itself. But, the tradition of Flamenco remains unchanged

The rivalry and respect between Manet and Degas

Is The Ugly Duchess a work of misogyny, a portrait of deformity or the mocking of an aristocrat? Or all three?

Her piece is a nod to the cultural and intellectual links between Britain and Italy

A new exhibition explores whether Ancient Greece's labyrinth existed or was a confection of the imagination cultivated over the centuries

Nightmares were the business of Hans Ruedi Giger, who drew on his own to create surrealist art – and the creature at the heart of Alien

One of the greatest Impressionists, Berthe Morisot’s work offered perceptive, unusual glimpses of domestic life

They endured the civil war, persecution and Franco, but the Basques are still singing

A new show at the National Gallery maps startling changes in pre-first world war European art

A campaign group in Spain is seeking better legal protection for women who experience harassment while breastfeeding in public. Will the rest of Europe follow?

Over 200 years on, Britain may be about to reverse Lord Elgin’s act of chicanery and vandalism

Fifty years after his death, the artist’s misogyny is the most pressing aspect of his legacy