The printmaker replaces Christopher Le Brun who stepped down after eight years in the post

From Lucian Freud's stunning self-portraits at the Royal Academy of Arts to King Tut's treasures at the Saatchi Gallery

Royal Academy’s artistic director is an unexpected choice

The artist’s altercation with a cab driver produced one of many revealing paintings being exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts

Announcement of RA artistic director's new appointment comes after Deyan Sudjic and Alice Black stepped down as co-directors

London exhibition tells a complex story of body, space and boundaries

From Helen Beard's sexually fluid paintings to Helene Schjerfbeck's unique Nordic Modernism

Artist's famous nude performance—first done with Ulay—to be recreated in her retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts next year

Exhibition first opens at Norway’s new Munch Museum, where Emin’s giant bronze The Mother will be permanently installed outside

Although her greatest work was painted in St Ives, the artist is little known in the UK—but a survey at the Royal Academy of Arts hopes to change that

The Royal Academy of Arts' assistant curator Rebecca Bray talks us through five of the Finnish artist’s key works

From the little-known Renaissance painter Bartolomé Bermejo at the National Gallery to the Hayward Gallery's huge group show exploring gender fluidity

The artist’s work submitted to the Summer Show denounces Hertfordshire’s decision to auction more than 400 works

Fashion continues upward trend in the US, shooting to the top of The Art Newspaper's chart, while the British Museum slips from the top spot in the UK

From Henry Moore’s Helmet Heads at the Wallace Collection to Renaissance nudes at the Royal Academy of Arts

From exquisite Elizabethan portrait miniatures at the National Portrait Gallery to Franz West's playful sculptures at Tate Modern

He succeeds Charles Saumarez Smith who stepped down in July 2018

The conceptual artist brings a range of recent works stateside in a presentation co-organised by the Royal Academy of Arts

From Pierre Bonnard's colours-turned-up-to-11 at Tate Modern to Bill Viola's dust up with Michelangelo at the Royal Academy of Arts

As the Royal Academy in London prepares to open a show uniting the US video artist with Michelangelo, his wife and collaborator discusses her pivotal role in his process

The Scottish painter will lead a committee of fellow artists to organise the annual contemporary art show

Art is Part of the Equation forms part of the institution’s push to make art more accessible

Major Leonardo and Rembrandt anniversaries mean a wealth of shows focusing on the Old Masters, but Tintoretto, the Bauhaus or even Bill Viola could be dark horses

The show includes male and female examples for historic accuracy, its lead curator says

From the erotic drawings of Klimt and Schiele at the Royal Academy to a last chance to see two hard-hitting shows by Mika Rottenberg and Hannah Perry

Despite the failings of the Stuart kings, their art collections stand in their favour, as exhibitions in the UK this year have shown

Artefact is one of around 200 on show in largest exhibition on the region in almost 40 years