Art

The humble life of St Francis of Assisi continues to inspire valuable paintings, showcased in an upcoming exhibition at the National Gallery

The German-born artist created his melancholy and nightmarish Europe After the Rain II during the most frightening and uncertain period of his own life

The Beheading of St John the Baptist in Valletta’s St John’s Co-Cathedral became the inspiration for Samuel Beckett’s dramatic monologue Not I

The Ukrainian-American was forward thinking in his willingness to combine art with the world of science and engineering

How a book of ancient Chinese and Indian texts influenced the work of one of Spain’s greatest modern artists

From Shaun the Sheep to Grand Theft Auto, Brexit is choking the arts, and the government is doing nothing about it

A revelatory exhibition unveils the workings of a genius

He was a quiet man who serially painted humble, dusty objects. So what makes Giorgio Morandi one of Italy's greatest arists?

A new exhibition shows how cross-cultural fertilisation was a characteristic of the Iberian peninsula from its early history

How the daughter of an art hero turned Soviet pariah kept his flame burning

An exhibition explores the life of the sculptor before and during her years in Cornwall

The work of four female artists in the Royal Academy’s Making Modernism show speaks volumes about their troubled lives

The National Gallery’s failure to properly showcase female artists continues with its treatment of Eva Gonzalès

The riptide of 20th century politics had pulled him from his homeland and set him adrift. A tumultuous period that soon defined his work

After three years of renovation, Piero della Francesca’s masterpiece is back on show at the National Gallery in time for Christmas

Unveiling Vienna-bound Gustav Klimt’s pan-European inspirations

The painting made Pablo Picasso the most famous – or notorious – artist in the modern world

In the 1980s Bilbao was on its knees. A hugely ambitious new art gallery changed all that

The Dutch craze for flowers made and lost fortunes – and produced some remarkable works of art

Largely unheralded during her lifetime, Slovakian sculptor Mária Bartuszová is now hailed for her richly feminine visual language

No 10 has mistaken excellence for elitism. The results could be disastrous

The Baltic state is bursting with creative brilliance. Art fans in the west need to catch up

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was the master of light and shade

After 11 years, Antwerp’s Royal Museum of Fine Arts has reopened with a nod to its glorious past but eyes firmly on the future

The Istanbul Biennial rediscovers a tasty old way to beat restrictions on freedom of expression

If you think Rothko's pieces are merely calm meditative paintings, look again. Carefully.

A new exhibition explores the relationship between the artist and the photographer

A new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum raises a question about the limits of art

The dismal artworks which have sat atop the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square bear ample evidence of how little contemporary conceptual art has to offer civic society

He still dabbled in the art world, but the last four decades of the Frenchman’s life were focused almost entirely on the game

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