Art

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

The dark daring of the extraordinary mid-century comics artist and illustrator, Italy’s answer to Norman Rockwell

Dani Karavan's Passages honours the memory of Walter Benjamin, who took his own life in Portbou when faced with being handed over to the Gestapo

How Van Gogh’s sister-in-law let go of his work and cemented his legend

Bombed, suppressed, destroyed… but the work of Ukrainian artists goes on

The Nordic town of Bodo, the 2024 European Capital of Culture, has everything you could wish for

It’s time for a long exposure for the avant-garde Bauhaus photographer

How the British countryside saved modern art’s greatest champion

Nude modelling has been an integral part of French art schools for centuries but now the models are demanding respect and status

The man behind the masks and mysteries – James Ensor, the angry, vindictive, solitary genius of Ostend

Lust, love and life: an exhibition about the art of the breast