Art

A fire that destroyed a library in Venice 455 years ago has inspired a superb Anselm Kiefer exhibition on loss and retrieval

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

Yes, art can shape our reality. But the metaverse can show us what could be possible in our future

Just as art allows us to expand our constructs, so does this new technological terrain. This is the future artists like myself paint

Organisers wanted to shake up a German contemporary art show. They did that, all right

Can urban art build bridges instead of walls? Eleven artists across Europe have come together to prove just this

Far more than the Britpop bands, it was the Young British Artists who best personified the Blair era

A self-confessed “unleashed exhibitionist, chasing headlines”, Collin Dufresne lived the life but on her terms

A new exhibition celebrates Pompeii’s erotic art and artefacts, many hidden from public view since their excavation in the 19th century

The best way to protect, and honour, culturally important objects is to put them on public ownership in museums

The early leader of the Dadaist movement blurred the boundaries of style and genre, writing poetry as good as his art, making sculptures as good as his collages

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

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

An exhibition highlights the wonders of the Venice serenaded by Canaletto and the dangers faced by the glorious city in the sea

But, we also need art that exposes us to different ways of thinking about them

A definitive, exhaustive exhibition of the Renaissance artist is a once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster of a show

The 72-year-old took what she thought was an unwanted jacket from the Paris museum. Her newly acquired coat was actually a work aimed to recreate the garment worn by Picasso

A new exhibition celebrates - and questions - the brief flowering of creativity in 1960s Lebanon

The National Gallery’s new Raphael exhibition hints at where the artist’s talent might have led him had he not died young

A collection of artworks all have one thing in common: it only takes paste or Sellotape to make public the anger, horror and pity felt at events in Ukraine

An exhibition at Bodleian Library traces 600 years of Anglo-Dutch history through beautiful medieval manuscripts, prints, maps and animal stories

The unexpectedly timely Postwar Modern at the Barbican showcases the ability of refugee artists to create great work after escaping conflict

To celebrate Jock McFadyen’s 70th birthday, the Royal Academy’s retrospective features 30 years of paintings of the East End of London

In Testament, an exhibition at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, contemporary artists have set about ripping up the traditional concept of statues

Photos quickly become burned into memory and can trigger a stronger human response than words or cool statistical analysis

The trailblazing artist has joined the ranks of the few artists who have enough work to more than fill two major European shows at the same time

How a disastrously expensive baseball signing gave his name to a new form of aleatoric art

A new exhibition in Milan shows us the art affluent Europeans would have seen on that 17th- and 18th-century rite of passage, the Grand Tour

With war under way, it is impossible to visit a new exhibition of Francis Bacon's work and not think about humans’ terrible vulnerability in the face of shot and shell

In a reclaimed tobacco warehouse in Umbria once used to squirrel away his favourite paintings, Alberto Burri’s work now reaches out to a wider audience

Celebrating a lost modernist pioneer

In these times of division and false narratives, this exhibition is exactly what people need