Art

Virtually unknown on arrival in England, the painter used his contacts – as well as his talent – to rise through Henry VIII’s court

After the battle comes the reckoning – even for the winners

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

Britain needs a government that doesn’t shy away from culture and art

A new exhibition celebrates a long-running but uncelebrated movement

For one brief moment, five very different artists – including Van Gogh and Seurat – sought inspiration on the banks of the Seine

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

There are many interpretations of its meaning. Are we witness to a dark memory, a sexual desire or a surrealist Pinocchio?

The artwork, worth £1.4m has been taken down in Leave-supporting Dover

The British Museum should be a place of cognition but it's not

The argument that only the British Museum can protect the marbles isn’t accepted in Greece

Colour photography pioneer Ernst Haas created a new iconography for the city by blurring the space between art and photojournalism

As Russia bombs Ukraine’s cultural sites, the powerful work in the capital’s Biennial is scattered across Europe

An anniversary year has featured as many scorching takedowns of Picasso’s character as it has paeans to his genius

Southend’s adoption of European culture cannot fix all its problems but it is having shocking social impacts

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

Jens Haaning’s fans call the stunt a daring conceptual piece of satire. However, a Danish court says it’s a crime

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

Never a religious man, at the end of his life converting a damp garage into a chapel became an unlikely obsession

A new show reveals the American artist’s many changes of direction, from condemning racism and violence to the calm of everyday life

There was much more to Tove Jansson than the troll family that made her famous

It is eternally imperilled and eternally inspiring. A new book celebrates the great art made in and about the city that makes spirits float

Putting up pictures in a new home leads to considerable pondering

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

Ivo Josipović, Croatia’s former president and self-confessed Beatles obsessive, has composed his own opera about the murder of John Lennon

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

There is far more than a cackling cavalier to the Dutch Golden Age painter, the most venerated artist of his time

Toulouse-Lautrec was an aristocrat who recognised in the outliers of society a shared vulnerable otherness

Technology is making forged paintings easier to identify, and giving us a chance to appreciate the art and craft of the counterfeiters

A Dutch royal residence has been turned into a huge public art gallery – a lesson for other royal families, perhaps?

The city’s unloved museum of archaeology shines after a makeover that makes its treasure trove of objects sing

The German artist was an immodest man with little to be modest about