Art

Marjorie Watson-Williams changed her name to Paule Vézelay, her home city from Bristol to Paris... and then set about changing art

For a golden period, the Tuscan hill town ruled the art world. Now its treasures are reassembled in a remarkable exhibition

Starting ‘by accident’ 10 years ago, the Profanities Embroidery Group has been described by the comedian Kathy Burke as a punk version of the Women’s Institute

Poland’s capital city boasts a variety of museums commemorating history, but MSN Warsaw has a futuristic approach to culture

Mette Tronvoll’s images of a remote island over several years capture the beauty of a dance with time

Why does the government want to feed the UK creative sector to the AI companies?

Francis Picabia was derided for wartime nudes with a worryingly Aryan aspect. But a new exhibition of later work suggests we may need to re-evaluate him

The ancient city of Palmyra was shattered by Islamic State. Now a Syrian artist is rebuilding it on her computer

Damien Hirst’s work is stale, insular, highly lucrative. Why were we ever taken in by him?

A new futurist exhibition, Breaking Lines: Futurism and the Origins of Experimental Poetry, offers a warning about alliances with fascism

At the start of the 20th century, Paris and Barcelona were united by modernist art. Then came a shocking, public suicide

A new exhibition recalls the litany of catastrophe that has afflicted the world for centuries

2025 looks like being an outstanding year for art

A defunct commodities exchange in Paris, owned by a billionaire, is the setting for an exhibition of a radical art movement that used lowly materials to react against consumerism

A Kyiv gallery has defied Russian missile attacks to stage a visceral but tender art competition for artists under 35

A honeymoon on the continent changed everything for American artist Helen Frankenthaler, whose work is being celebrated in Florence and Bilbao this year

The almost unbelievable artistic riches of renaissance Florence form the basis of an unmissable exhibition

Three parallel exhibitions celebrate a great Dutch artist whose career began after a great deal of crying over spilt milk

A 1532 first edition of Machiavelli’s The Prince, which are vanishingly hard to come by, has just come on the market

Once a painter of charming small-town scenes, Antonio Calderara radically departed into the abstract. But was this shift as sudden, or surprising, as it seems?

Sent from Berlin to London to escape the Nazis, artist Frank Auerbach – who died earlier this month – painted his new surroundings over and over again

As arguments about Notre-Dame’s restoration rage on, a new exhibition gathers together stained-glass windows that caused their own controversy in the 1930s

A London exhibition featuring Joseph Beuys and two more key conceptual artists feels dated if occasionally thrilling

What he saw as the blandness of tradition bore little or no resemblance to the world he knew and the art he wanted to create

In a tense year, a new Athens exhibition celebrates our precious freedom to vote

Europe's greatest ever treasure hunt is over, leaving thousands bereft

Constable’s painting has become an icon of Englishness. But its first cheerleaders were French

The Italian photographer who captured the magic in the everyday

Photographer Christoph Irrgang returns to the sites where masterpieces were painted to see how much they have changed

The innovative works of Norway’s Anna-Eva Bergman, realised in metal leaf, bear comparison with Rothko and Klimt

The small town of Bodø has achieved recognition as the European Capital of Culture 2024. Now, will it also recognise one of its own?

Thirty timeless classics shot on the continent