Painting
Van Dyck's greatest portraits as an opera in four acts
This elegant and suggestively written monograph is the fruit of 70 years’ reflections on the Flemish artist’s portraiture
The Harvest: painted in a single summer's day, here's why this is Van Gogh’s finest landscape
Vincent needed to recover from his intensive work with a stiff drink and his beloved pipe
Photographs, psychoanalysis and sex: four books provide enlightening studies of 'rock star' Francis Bacon
The artist seen from varied perspectives on his work and influences
Grand mural projects: a vital chapter in British art history
In her book, Lydia Hamlett unpacks the literary, cultural and political significance of “the animated wall”
Slavery: the groundbreaking Dutch exhibition confronting colonial history
Plus, Leonora Carrington's Surrealist children's book behind the next Venice Biennale and Rubens's landscapes reunited after 200 years
Frank Bowling: ‘My art isn’t about politics, it’s about paint’
As several shows of his work open, the artist talks about the distinctive transatlantic influences on his art, the role of politics, and art for art’s sake
Édouard Manet and modern beauty: prettier, more frivolous and gallant
A series of essays explores the 'feminisation' of the artist's later practice
Rarely seen paintings by Nina Hamnett, fringe member of the Bloomsbury Group, to go on show at Charleston
The artist, who was most famous as a model and a memoirist, specialised in portraits of working people and her artistic circle
The American who brought Modern masterpieces to Iran
A new memoir by curator Donna Stein reveals the story behind the creation of a Western art collection for the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in the 1970s
The places you can’t go: Ellen Harvey recreates lost places
Her Disappointed Tourist project now includes more than 200 sites submitted by the public
Scientists unveil 'whitest paint ever'—and museums can't wait to get their hands on it
The material, which reflects 98% of light, will have significant use in cooling buildings and fighting climate change
Researchers suggest that trippy hallucinations influenced prehistoric cave art
Reduced oxygen resulting from the use of torches in narrow enclosed spaces likely triggered hypoxia, resulting in out-of-body experiences, scholars report
Tess Jaray: ‘I wanted to make space, to make something that you could disappear into’
As shows of her paintings open in the UK and Austria, Jaray reflects on the influence of Piero della Francesca and Brunelleschi on her work across six decades
Getty acquires a striking painting by Artemisia Gentileschi of the Roman heroine Lucretia
The museum, which did not disclose the price, says the work reflects a shift to a more idealised style
Victorian watercolours by trailblazing British feminist and social justice campaigner come up for auction
Ewbank Auctions in England has estimated the amateur paintings by Josephine Butler at around £250 each
Artist Yan Pei-Ming makes vast pandemic painting inspired by plague scenes of the Isenheim altarpiece
“The viewer might be shocked. It is life today,” says the artist who created the Covid-19 works in isolation in his studio in Dijon
Unseen Van Gogh painting of Paris—owned by one French family for a century—could make $10m at Sotheby’s
The rare work shows a distinctive pastoral side to the city's Montmartre neighbourhood
When everything turned upside down: Georg Baselitz donates six pathbreaking paintings to the Met
Portraits date from 1969, a pivotal point for an artist departing from conventional motifs
Its attribution restored, a Rembrandt portrait goes on view in Pennsylvania
A scientific analysis and conservation effort unveiled signature brush strokes and other marks of the master
At US Capitol, a new president and vice president greet 1859 painting with a rainbow theme
Painting by Black artist was chosen under Jill Biden’s guidance for a gift-giving ceremony
US Capitol’s works of art survive amid right-wing rampage in Washington
The authorities say that cleaning and conservation will be needed, however, after art was damaged by tear gas, pepper spray and fire extinguishers
The Big Review—Tracey Emin/Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul
The British artist rekindles her love affair with the work of her favourite artist at the Royal Academy—and it is Emin whose voice emerges strongest
Fernand Khnopff and the art of introspection—exhaustive book offers last word on Belgian Symbolist
The outcome of decades of research, this meticulously produced volume gives insight into artist's full oeuvre
‘We have to broaden our reach, be more interesting’: the year the Old Master trade went digital
The pandemic has forced a resolutely analogue trade to go digital. Despite the technical hurdles, the results have surprised even traditionalists
A brush with... Christina Quarles
An in-depth podcast conversation on the artist's big influences, from epic musicals to James Baldwin
'I’m excited to know that what I’ve made has physically never been made before': Jennifer Packer's extrasensory paintings come to London
Ahead of shows at the Serpentine Galleries in London and, next year, at MoCA in Los Angeles, the US painter reflects on the power—and constraints—of her medium
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s political—with a small ‘p’—portraits finally go on show at Tate Britain
The British artist's largest exhibition to date will also be shown in Stockholm, Dusseldorf and Luxembourg
Remembering Kenzo Takada, the designer and artist who created the first global, multicultural, fashion brand
In everything he made—clothes, spectacles inspired by his trademark round lenses, home furnishings, parfumerie—Takada's love of fine art remained close at hand
Missing for decades, a Jacob Lawrence painting surfaces in response to a Met exhibition
A visitor makes the connection between the artist’s Struggle series and a work in a neighbour’s home
Cecily Brown: ‘I’m trying to understand what England means to me’
With her delayed show now open at Blenheim Palace, the British-born painter explains that she is as likely to be inspired by childhood comics as historic battle scenes