Art

How the battle over free TV licences for pensioners led to a daring heist in 1961 by an OAP. Possibly...

The photographer escaped Ukraine as a child but returned to take these stunning images

But, where is the big money for the arts going to come from?

CHARLIE CONNELLY on the Viennese artist who shocked the laissez-faire populace of his native city

If NFTs are the future of art then the future looks bleak. But, if it is supposed to be representative of the era that generates it, then perhaps it is what we deserve.

A new exhibition explores the past 70 years of British history from the perspective of those who feel disconnected from their heritage.

FLORENCE HALLETT examines the Gulf state’s thriving cultural scene

CLAUDIA PRITCHARD enjoys a European journey in the company of a German genius.

The master satirist’s complicated relationship with his European contemporaries is explored in a stunning exhibition in London’s Tate Britain.

Conquered, subjugated, occupied. For 100 years the Poles were under the thumb of one oppressor or another, but the country fought back by creating art.

It was in her art that she truly lost herself, but this didn't stop Amrita Sher-Gil from finding fault with her work.

After the success of The Hare with Amber Eyes, potter and writer Edmund de Waal returns with an exhibition and book of fictional letters about a journey through grief.

The Sicilian city is putting its mafia controlled past behind it and forging a new reputation for art and integration.

A new exhibition of works by Pablo Bronstein couldn’t be more apt, as it reveals the ecological cost of material gratification.

A new exhibition of portrait paintings at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam shows how Renaissance artists captured their subjects almost as clearly as we can on our phones today.

At its 19th century peak, spiritualism had eight million followers in Europe and the USA. The movement might not have stood the test of time, but the art it produced will.

The promise of a fresh start, followed by a stunning burst of creativity – and then the full stop of his final act.

As art has gone bling, so too has art fraud, with a series of sophisticated fakes and cons now sweeping the world.

He is best known for The Great Wave off Kanagawa, but Japan’s Hokusai also produced an extraordinary ‘encyclopedia’ of art. Lost for decades, it is now the subject of a blockbuster exhibition at the British Museum.

An exhibition in Oxford explores the creativity and chaos of the Japanese capital.

This year’s Turner Prize finalists have been chosen for their promotion of social causes. But has rewarding virtue left any room for art?

As Italy and the literary world marks 700 years since the death of Dante Alighieri, portraits by his namesake, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, resound with the writer’s influence on the painter’s art.

On his centenary, Germany’s best-known post-war artist remains as influential – and contentious – as ever.

Five years before the Festival of Britain came another international exhibition showcasing post-war UK innovation. Seventy five years on, it is a sombre reminder of some of the qualities which – despite much voguish rhetoric – the country has lost, writes RICHARD HOLLEDGE

An exhibition of ten British African artists in Cambridge challenges and inspires, writes RICHARD HOLLEDGE

A stunning new sculpture in a disused Spanish lighthouse seems to offer a portal to the earth’s core.

WILL SELF on his visit Stephen Wright’s House of Dreams and its extraordinary insider-outsider artwork

FLORENCE HALLETT investigates how the painter’s discovery of ancient Iberian art changed his work forever.

The secretive artist whose works command millions at auction has returned with new street pieces in Great Yarmouth and other eastern coastal towns. But as prices continue to rise, what is it like to have been one of the early adopters who bought one of his early prints for a song nearly 20 years ago?

A remarkable new book and exhibition chart a series of extraordinary events and rituals along the river, from its muddy source to its expansive estuary.

How Jean Dubuffet reinvented cityscapes, the female nude.. and even his own work. By CLAUDIA PRITCHARD

Bernard Arnault and François Pinault, two of France's richest men and the powers behind some of the world's most glamourous brands, fell out in a business dispute 20 years ago.