Pirosmani's record price dates from 2018, not this month. The real story is the painting's chain of owners, starting with Stefan Zweig in Moscow in…
The Bayeux Tapestry is at the British Museum until July 2027. How it crossed the Channel, why tickets vanished, and where to see the Reading…
Maurizio Cattelan’s NIGHT turns Mies van der Rohe’s glass hall into a contemporary church: a shrunken Brandenburg Gate, a kneeling Hitler, a crucified figure in…
On 26 September the Turner Prize 2026 exhibition opens at MIMA, the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. The shortlisted work will be on show there…
Walk into the medieval and early Renaissance rooms of the National Gallery in London and you pass, within a few paces, a lamb tucked under…
By Alexander Stone A gallery exhibition in London is not reviewed because someone asked nicely. It is reviewed because a hang was ready, a press…
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…