Art

Ideas from Europe can increase participation in the arts for those from lower-income backgrounds

The art that brought Paris back from the dead

Whether she had an actual gun in her hand or not, art became her weapon, a noisy defence against the world and an instrument of her reckoning with the past

How one night of music inspired Kandinsky’s Blue Rider movement

South West Bank delves into the historic struggles Palestinians have faced

Photographic chronicles of the everyday, inspired by Nobel winner Annie Ernaux

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s cinema, exhibitions and books

The new Enzo Mari exhibition at London’s Design Museum offers a rare glimpse at the artist's intentions

Thanks to a letter about delivery, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula was finally attributed to its great master

The Judgement of Paris gives up its myriad secrets at the National Gallery

Even for all her success and the wealth that came with it, Valadon’s bohemianism remained undiminished

A new exhibition connects the work of over 50 women from across the world

Her portraits of women in active roles and her self-belief make her a pioneering figure in art history

The exhibition Political Prisoners in Contemporary Spain brings a much-needed political frisson to tourist-friendly Barcelona

The Istanbul Modern has been forced to cooperate with the government and compromise on its politics

This new music shines a light on the Carnic Alps, one of Europe’s most obscure regions with a fast-fading culture

To the Dutchman commercial art was just as fulfilling as something more purely creative – and it came with a wage

How Paul Nougé helped create a movement... then disowned it

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s theatre, books and cinema

This is the country’s first museum dedicated to telling the whole story of the darkest period in European history. Will it get it right?

The artist championing the Arctic’s mistreated, reindeer-raising Sámi people

Born with a talent for living – and living off others – the painter never quite seemed to fit in. Then he discovered Greece

How a young woman finally unlocked the life ahead of her by spending a year at Wordsworth’s cottage in the Lake District

Our editor-at-large’s rundown of the pick of the week’s film, TV and art

Is a masterpiece diminished simply because lots of people like it? Of course not

Rothko’s Seagram murals come to Paris

How an illiterate model reinvented herself as one of Italy’s greatest modern painters

The mythology around the Spanish civil war lives on in Munich

The artist's landscapes inspired German romanticism and are now turning him into a green icon

The icon of St Matrona of Moscow and Stalin has caused a remarkable division of opinion in Georgia, culminating in an act of vandalism

Satire, sadness and the home truths about a divided nation

A hugely ambitious exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art shows how a burgeoning sense of nationhood gripped many European countries in 1918