Art

Art market slump paints a complicated picture

Top collectors are waiting it out while galleries cope with a market course correction

Gilbert & George’s 21st Century Pictures – eye-popping but empty

Vast, lurid yet increasingly timid, the pair’s art is in your face but never reaches heart and head. Plus, a captivating show of Scandinavian graphic works

Peter Doig: ‘I’ve never felt the need to cash in on my success’

His paintings have fetched the highest prices for a living artist. But as Doig explains, his new show at London’s Serpentine Gallery is more about the music

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

The making of Lee Miller

The American photographer’s response to war and its aftermath stun at Tate Britain

The grid: Roberto Benavidez’s playful piñatas

The LA-based artist gives Bosch’s menacing menagerie a papier-mache makeover

The grid: Edie Medley’s pub-patter pictures

Two pints of lager, a packet of crisps and a nugget of wisdom – the sketches inspired by nights in the pub

Not the end of the Turner Prize, just the end of the world

The 2025 exhibition, which comes amid global crisis, has an urgency greater than the sum of its parts

Jean Rhys and the art of not belonging

A new exhibition attempts to bring to life the mysterious novelist through works in conversation with her books

Gilbert and George: ‘No artist of our generation did what we did’

Impolite, outlandish and determinedly eccentric, the art world’s ‘inside-outers’ have spent 60 years dividing opinion. They share their collective wisdom on love, politics and mortality

Tate Modern’s Theatre Picasso – contrived, confused, uncalled for

This exhibition is concerned with presentation, but artworks are mounted on mesh grids like posters at Ikea

Face to face with the pharaohs’ tomb artists

The painters and stonemasons of ancient Egypt have been erased from history, but a new exhibition brings them fully to life

How pointillism revolutionised painting

The National Gallery show Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists presents a pan-European movement with extraordinary aims and variations

A brush with the ‘world’s best art forger’

David Henty sells copies of masterworks to financiers, footballers and gangsters. Is it art or opportunism?

Marie Antoinette behind the possessions

A magnificent exhibition at the V&A tries to capture the woman behind the possessions

The grid: Artez’s giant gymnasts

Twisted, towering figures are bent to the building’s will in the Serbian street artist’s muscular murals

The grid: Gabrielle Garland’s twist on domestic bliss

The New York-based artist’s vivid, cartoon-like paintings add a hint off the surreal to the mundane

The roving curiosity of Gateshead’s Baltic Centre

The centre has long drawn parallels with the Tate Modern. But its current offering sets it apart as a civic-minded hub of creativity