Art

Edvard Munch was the tortured artist of legend – but he was also highly prolific, highly popular and cherished by a network of family and friends

Arresting and alarming, consoling and unashamedly beautiful, two exhibitions in Amsterdam and one in Oxford are showing the work of arguably the most significant living artist

A new exhibition focuses on the surrealist’s cinematic adventures

The acclaimed artist takes Florence in her first institutional solo show in Italy

An exhibition of artworks telling the terrifying story of MAGA and Trump’s second coming has made it on to the streets of London in poster form

A new exhibition at the University of East Anglia celebrates the art of keeping your head above water

The Royal Academy celebrates 10 Brazilian artists hugely influenced by Europe

A new show in the German capital is attempting to bring to life the core principles of quantum physics

Widowed, gravely ill and with three children under seven, the artist somehow managed to reinvent her work

Corporate giants buy great art like stocks and shares – and then hide it from the public. But in Italy, things are thankfully a little different…

Hans Coper fled the Nazis - and found a post-war state ready to sponsor art as it rebuilt the country

Marjorie Watson-Williams changed her name to Paule Vézelay, her home city from Bristol to Paris... and then set about changing art

For a golden period, the Tuscan hill town ruled the art world. Now its treasures are reassembled in a remarkable exhibition

Starting ‘by accident’ 10 years ago, the Profanities Embroidery Group has been described by the comedian Kathy Burke as a punk version of the Women’s Institute

Poland’s capital city boasts a variety of museums commemorating history, but MSN Warsaw has a futuristic approach to culture

Mette Tronvoll’s images of a remote island over several years capture the beauty of a dance with time

Why does the government want to feed the UK creative sector to the AI companies?

Francis Picabia was derided for wartime nudes with a worryingly Aryan aspect. But a new exhibition of later work suggests we may need to re-evaluate him

The ancient city of Palmyra was shattered by Islamic State. Now a Syrian artist is rebuilding it on her computer

Damien Hirst’s work is stale, insular, highly lucrative. Why were we ever taken in by him?

A new futurist exhibition, Breaking Lines: Futurism and the Origins of Experimental Poetry, offers a warning about alliances with fascism

At the start of the 20th century, Paris and Barcelona were united by modernist art. Then came a shocking, public suicide

A new exhibition recalls the litany of catastrophe that has afflicted the world for centuries

2025 looks like being an outstanding year for art

A defunct commodities exchange in Paris, owned by a billionaire, is the setting for an exhibition of a radical art movement that used lowly materials to react against consumerism

A Kyiv gallery has defied Russian missile attacks to stage a visceral but tender art competition for artists under 35

A honeymoon on the continent changed everything for American artist Helen Frankenthaler, whose work is being celebrated in Florence and Bilbao this year

The almost unbelievable artistic riches of renaissance Florence form the basis of an unmissable exhibition

Three parallel exhibitions celebrate a great Dutch artist whose career began after a great deal of crying over spilt milk

A 1532 first edition of Machiavelli’s The Prince, which are vanishingly hard to come by, has just come on the market

Once a painter of charming small-town scenes, Antonio Calderara radically departed into the abstract. But was this shift as sudden, or surprising, as it seems?

Sent from Berlin to London to escape the Nazis, artist Frank Auerbach – who died earlier this month – painted his new surroundings over and over again