When artist Paolo Puck had to leave his home, he dreamt up a world of his own
The dark, wayward works of the Two Roberts
The inseparable Scottish artists and lovers are celebrated in a landmark English show at Charleston
Fear and loathing at Frieze
This year’s London art fair was a spectacle insulated from the world outside the tent
Tay-Tay’s Ophelia is positively drowning in artistic references
The star’s channelling of the tragic heroine has sent Swifties flocking to see Friedrich Heyser’s original
Drew Struzan, movie poster artist ‘of the highest order’
The illustrations were so good, Steven Spielberg said he felt compelled to make his films live up to them
Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring finally gets a name
A radical new theory about the life and beliefs of the Dutch master
A tale of two art fairs
This month Frieze and, across the Channel, Art Basel are locked in a battle for domination of the global art fair market
Cosey Fanni Tutti reveals all
An exhibition in the pioneering artist's hometown sees the Throbbing Gristle co-founder celebrating 50 years of baring her soul
In the frame: artist Geoff McFetridge’s ranch house in LA
Tucked away on a verdant street in a canyon above LA, this family home is the perfect creative backdrop
Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I don’t think it’s ever a good idea to deny history’
The museum director on toppling statues, the Parthenon marbles and hosting London’s answer to the Met Gala
Art market slump paints a complicated picture
Top collectors are waiting it out while galleries cope with a market course correction
America’s ‘laureate of lunch counters’
Wayne Thiebaud’s vibrant paintings capture the romance of a bygone age. The first solo exhibition in Britain of his art opens this week
Hans Ulrich Obrist’s cultural highlights
The Serpentine gallery curator on British rap, Sou Fujimoto’s architecture and video games
Psychedelic Milton Keynes
A paragon of postwar new towns it might be, but MK isn’t too well known for its cultural riches. An eye-popping makeover for the city’s main point of entry hopes to change all that…
The grid: Roberto Benavidez’s playful piñatas
The LA-based artist gives Bosch’s menacing menagerie a papier-mache makeover
How to own a Rembrandt – just a little bit of one
A collector plans to float his Dutch masters on the stock market, letting thousands of investors take stakes in the collection
Pupils starved of art lose their creative spark
You can’t buy a crayon with the amount spent on arts materials in some schools
Art, raves and four-minute warnings: 24 hours in Kyiv
How the city’s young are clinging to normality while war rages on
Gabriele Finaldi, the National Gallery’s ambitious director
A gifted fundraiser, he has attracted £375m in donations and expanded the museum’s remit to contemporary art
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