Art

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

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