Art

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

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