Florence Hallett
02 July 2024
The last testament of Jacqueline de Jong
A fiery final interview with the provocative Dutch artist
Read the full article12 June 2024
Scheidegger, artist of the portraits
How tragedy turned photojournalist Ernst Scheidegger into a recorder of Dalí, Giacometti and more
Read the full article22 May 2024
Moving right.. away from art
Amsterdam prepares for Art Week against a backdrop of a new government keen to end culture funding
Read the full article18 May 2024
The white world of Brâncuși
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
Read the full article17 April 2024
Vive le Centre Pompidou: Monster magnifique
Amid all the glories of Paris, the Pompidou Centre stands as a monument to modernism and to the man whose name it bears
Read the full article20 March 2024
Fear comes to Istanbul’s cultural scene
The Istanbul Modern has been forced to cooperate with the government and compromise on its politics
Read the full article06 March 2024
Against the herd: the kaleidoscopic visions of Outi Pieski
The artist championing the Arctic’s mistreated, reindeer-raising Sámi people
Read the full article07 February 2024
Pasquarosa, the muse that roared
How an illiterate model reinvented herself as one of Italy’s greatest modern painters
Read the full article28 January 2024
The art of Brexit
Satire, sadness and the home truths about a divided nation
Read the full article03 January 2024
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
Read the full article20 December 2023
Female artists take centre stage in 2023
Several standout exhibitions this year moved beyond simply flagging the work of “forgotten” artist women
Read the full article15 November 2023
Harriet Backer’s music of light
Celebrating a rediscovery of the Norwegian realist who used colour combinations ‘like chords sounding in perfect harmony’
Read the full article08 November 2023
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
Read the full article11 October 2023
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
Read the full article04 October 2023
Nomad world: the esoteric aura of Not Vital
How the Switzerland-born contemporary artist has left his mark across the globe
Read the full article27 September 2023
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
Read the full article20 September 2023
It’s time to flatten Rubens’ curves
Despite his legacy, "Rubenesque" women were only a small part of the artist's work
Read the full article02 August 2023
The artwashing in Istanbul
The museum that masks Erdoğan’s contempt for Turkey’s artists
Read the full article21 June 2023
Divine madness: The whirlwind life of Sarah Bernhardt
Europe’s first celebrity is celebrated in a treasure trove of objects at Paris’ Petit Palais
Read the full article14 June 2023
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
Read the full article24 May 2023
Modernism’s frenemies
The rivalry and respect between Manet and Degas
Read the full article17 May 2023
Bridget Riley’s ‘hymn to the power of sight’
Her piece is a nod to the cultural and intellectual links between Britain and Italy
Read the full article30 March 2023
We need to talk about Picasso
Fifty years after his death, the artist’s misogyny is the most pressing aspect of his legacy
Read the full article23 March 2023
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
Read the full article02 February 2023
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
Read the full article26 January 2023
Uncovering the secret afterlife of Lithuania’s Mr Liberty
How the daughter of an art hero turned Soviet pariah kept his flame burning
Read the full article17 November 2022
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
Read the full article27 October 2022
Dissent and dumplings: Served up at the Istanbul Biennial
The Istanbul Biennial rediscovers a tasty old way to beat restrictions on freedom of expression
Read the full article29 September 2022
Picasso, the world’s most stolen artist
Why the most celebrated painter of all time is a criminal’s dream come true
Read the full article25 August 2022
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
Read the full article15 July 2022
Fujiko Nakaya: A vision through the fog
Fujiko Nakaya: Nebel Leben is the first comprehensive survey exhibition of the visionary sculptor outside of Japan
Read the full article23 June 2022
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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