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Florence Hallett

Fear comes to Istanbul’s cultural scene

The Istanbul Modern has been forced to cooperate with the government and compromise on its politics

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Against the herd: the kaleidoscopic visions of Outi Pieski

The artist championing the Arctic’s mistreated, reindeer-raising Sámi people

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Pasquarosa, the muse that roared

How an illiterate model reinvented herself as one of Italy’s greatest modern painters

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The art of Brexit

Satire, sadness and the home truths about a divided nation

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It’s going to be a very strong year in art

A number of anniversaries means it's going to be a year to savour for the visual arts

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Female artists take centre stage in 2023

Several standout exhibitions this year moved beyond simply flagging the work of “forgotten” artist women

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Harriet Backer’s music of light

Celebrating a rediscovery of the Norwegian realist who used colour combinations ‘like chords sounding in perfect harmony’

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Radical acts of resistance: women in the Paris Avantgarde

A new exhibition in Basel aims to put women at the centre of the previously male-dominated Fauvism movement

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Stop these boats: Norway’s cruise ship crisis

The green party has ambitions to make Bergen ‘cruise-free’ by 2027 but this will be no mean feat

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Nomad world: the esoteric aura of Not Vital

How the Switzerland-born contemporary artist has left his mark across the globe

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Venice’s visitor charge will not avert disaster

This tourist charge will not address the city's declining population, rising prices and lack of housing

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It's time to flatten Rubens' curves

Despite his legacy, "Rubenesque" women were only a small part of the artist's work

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The artwashing in Istanbul

The museum that masks Erdoğan’s contempt for Turkey’s artists

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Divine madness: The whirlwind life of Sarah Bernhardt

Europe’s first celebrity is celebrated in a treasure trove of objects at Paris’ Petit Palais

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Disasterpiece: how Brexit relegated Britain from the art market's premier league

The UK used to be the obvious point of entry for art and antiquities coming into Europe. But then we ostracised ourselves

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Modernism’s frenemies

The rivalry and respect between Manet and Degas

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Bridget Riley’s ‘hymn to the power of sight’

Her piece is a nod to the cultural and intellectual links between Britain and Italy

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We need to talk about Picasso

Fifty years after his death, the artist’s misogyny is the most pressing aspect of his legacy

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Lucie Rie: A refugee’s great pottery showdown

We labelled her an ‘enemy alien’ but the Austrian-born studio potter’s work helped reinvent a drab postwar Britain

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The art of the Spanish Empire's bloody conquests

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

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Uncovering the secret afterlife of Lithuania's Mr Liberty

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

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Plaster master: the art of Maria Bartuszová

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

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Dissent and dumplings: Served up at the Istanbul Biennial

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

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Picasso, the world’s most stolen artist

Why the most celebrated painter of all time is a criminal’s dream come true

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Art goes private: Why the rich want their own spaces

As a new collection in Vienna shows, the rich have stopped lending art to public galleries, and are opening their own spaces instead

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Fujiko Nakaya: A vision through the fog

Fujiko Nakaya: Nebel Leben is the first comprehensive survey exhibition of the visionary sculptor outside of Japan

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A white elephant trumpets its success

Hamburg’s £740m concert hall went wildly over budget – but it is an overwhelming hit with visitors and locals

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Mice that roar: an everyday tale of determination

Tiny sculptures made by an 85-year-old tell an epic tale at the Venice Biennale

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No more Mr Venice Guy: the Biennale casts off its male, pale past

Russia is absent from this year’s edition of the world’s biggest international art exhibition. But the main talking point is a decisive move away from domination by white men

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The vanishing of Bice Lazzari

Celebrating a lost modernist pioneer

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Raw beauty finds a home in a wild Galician port

An exhibition of fashion photography on A Coruña’s industrial dockside is a gift to the city. By FLORENCE HALLETT

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Shiny, shallow and rich: The case for Qatar's cultural ambitions

FLORENCE HALLETT examines the Gulf state’s thriving cultural scene

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