Art

Photographer Christoph Irrgang returns to the sites where masterpieces were painted to see how much they have changed

The innovative works of Norway’s Anna-Eva Bergman, realised in metal leaf, bear comparison with Rothko and Klimt

The small town of Bodø has achieved recognition as the European Capital of Culture 2024. Now, will it also recognise one of its own?

Thirty timeless classics shot on the continent

The dark daring of the extraordinary mid-century comics artist and illustrator, Italy’s answer to Norman Rockwell

Dani Karavan's Passages honours the memory of Walter Benjamin, who took his own life in Portbou when faced with being handed over to the Gestapo

How Van Gogh’s sister-in-law let go of his work and cemented his legend

Bombed, suppressed, destroyed… but the work of Ukrainian artists goes on

The Nordic town of Bodo, the 2024 European Capital of Culture, has everything you could wish for

It’s time for a long exposure for the avant-garde Bauhaus photographer

How the British countryside saved modern art’s greatest champion

Nude modelling has been an integral part of French art schools for centuries but now the models are demanding respect and status

The man behind the masks and mysteries – James Ensor, the angry, vindictive, solitary genius of Ostend

Lust, love and life: an exhibition about the art of the breast

My decades-long relationship with a fake blue plaque has been rekindled by a new Labour government

Come on Tate Gallery, if you really feel the need to right a historic injustice, do it by ameliorating a contemporary one

A new novel that reimagines art’s most toxic relationship and reintroduces the photographer and artist’s legacy to the world

A fiery final interview with the provocative Dutch artist

A retrospective opens in Munich of the drawings, films and kinetic sculptures of German artist Rebecca Horn

Early Soviet avant-garde art… and how it was crushed

When the artist died in Rome in 1564, he had one more remarkable journey still to make

With an 800-year history, the city’s St John’s Hospital Museum understands the role of art in the healing process

Amsterdam prepares for Art Week against a backdrop of a new government keen to end culture funding

On the eve of its five-year closure, the Centre Pompidou is hosting an exhibition of Constantin Brâncuși’s work that is only the second of its kind in France

Ideas from Europe can increase participation in the arts for those from lower-income backgrounds

The art that brought Paris back from the dead

Whether she had an actual gun in her hand or not, art became her weapon, a noisy defence against the world and an instrument of her reckoning with the past

How one night of music inspired Kandinsky’s Blue Rider movement

South West Bank delves into the historic struggles Palestinians have faced

Photographic chronicles of the everyday, inspired by Nobel winner Annie Ernaux

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, exhibitions and books

The new Enzo Mari exhibition at London’s Design Museum offers a rare glimpse at the artist's intentions