Art

In Testament, an exhibition at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, contemporary artists have set about ripping up the traditional concept of statues

Photos quickly become burned into memory and can trigger a stronger human response than words or cool statistical analysis

The trailblazing artist has joined the ranks of the few artists who have enough work to more than fill two major European shows at the same time

How a disastrously expensive baseball signing gave his name to a new form of aleatoric art

A new exhibition in Milan shows us the art affluent Europeans would have seen on that 17th- and 18th-century rite of passage, the Grand Tour

With war under way, it is impossible to visit a new exhibition of Francis Bacon's work and not think about humans’ terrible vulnerability in the face of shot and shell

In a reclaimed tobacco warehouse in Umbria once used to squirrel away his favourite paintings, Alberto Burri’s work now reaches out to a wider audience

Celebrating a lost modernist pioneer

In these times of division and false narratives, this exhibition is exactly what people need

How the battle over free TV licences for pensioners led to a daring heist in 1961 by an OAP. Possibly...

The photographer escaped Ukraine as a child but returned to take these stunning images

But, where is the big money for the arts going to come from?

CHARLIE CONNELLY on the Viennese artist who shocked the laissez-faire populace of his native city

If NFTs are the future of art then the future looks bleak. But, if it is supposed to be representative of the era that generates it, then perhaps it is what we deserve.

A new exhibition explores the past 70 years of British history from the perspective of those who feel disconnected from their heritage.

FLORENCE HALLETT examines the Gulf state’s thriving cultural scene

CLAUDIA PRITCHARD enjoys a European journey in the company of a German genius.

The master satirist’s complicated relationship with his European contemporaries is explored in a stunning exhibition in London’s Tate Britain.

Conquered, subjugated, occupied. For 100 years the Poles were under the thumb of one oppressor or another, but the country fought back by creating art.

It was in her art that she truly lost herself, but this didn't stop Amrita Sher-Gil from finding fault with her work.

After the success of The Hare with Amber Eyes, potter and writer Edmund de Waal returns with an exhibition and book of fictional letters about a journey through grief.

The Sicilian city is putting its mafia controlled past behind it and forging a new reputation for art and integration.

A new exhibition of works by Pablo Bronstein couldn’t be more apt, as it reveals the ecological cost of material gratification.

A new exhibition of portrait paintings at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam shows how Renaissance artists captured their subjects almost as clearly as we can on our phones today.

At its 19th century peak, spiritualism had eight million followers in Europe and the USA. The movement might not have stood the test of time, but the art it produced will.

The promise of a fresh start, followed by a stunning burst of creativity – and then the full stop of his final act.

As art has gone bling, so too has art fraud, with a series of sophisticated fakes and cons now sweeping the world.

He is best known for The Great Wave off Kanagawa, but Japan’s Hokusai also produced an extraordinary ‘encyclopedia’ of art. Lost for decades, it is now the subject of a blockbuster exhibition at the British Museum.

An exhibition in Oxford explores the creativity and chaos of the Japanese capital.

This year’s Turner Prize finalists have been chosen for their promotion of social causes. But has rewarding virtue left any room for art?

As Italy and the literary world marks 700 years since the death of Dante Alighieri, portraits by his namesake, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, resound with the writer’s influence on the painter’s art.

On his centenary, Germany’s best-known post-war artist remains as influential – and contentious – as ever.