Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has died aged 97. From Infinity Nets to mirror rooms and pumpkins, how her hallucinations became one of contemporary art's most…
Zibeyda Seyidova is an enigmatic Azerbaijani artist whose practice is rooted in the idea that perception is a continuous, embodied process, resulting from an intersection…
By Alexander Stone Francis Bacon’s viscerally distorted figures, emerging from the ruins of World War II, captured the raw psychological aftermath of a century defined…
A Dutch still life looks, at first glance, like a boast. Polished silver, a half-peeled lemon, a watch on a silk ribbon, a glass of…
The thieves struck just before ten on Saturday evening, while Messina’s streets were still thrumming with the Processione della Vara. By the time the religious…
By Lana Sterling Barbara Hepworth transformed British sculpture by piercing solid forms and letting Cornish light flood through them. Settling in St Ives in 1939,…
London in high summer tends to split its galleries into two camps: the blockbuster with a timed ticket and a queue, and the quieter room…
A single black line runs vertically across a white canvas. A polished stone rests on a pedestal under a pinpoint spotlight. A gallery room stands…
A single stenciled rat stares down from a brick wall in East London. Its posture is defiant, its message cryptic. Ten miles away, a towering…
British landscape painting glows with a deceptively tranquil light. We think of honey-toned fields, misty valleys, and skies heavy with rainclouds – scenes so familiar…