In Steven Soderbergh’s latest film, The Christophers, Ian McKellen's once-celebrated artist hasn’t put brush to canvas for decades. Creating his cluttered, crusted-over studio was a gift of a project for production designer Antonia Lowe
At the National Gallery Singapore, the winner of this year’s Craft Prize – and the other shortlisted works – offer an invigorating vision of the possibilities of making
‘Fountain’ is perhaps the most famous artwork of the 20th century, but its creator’s intentions are still endlessly debated
The Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, an offbeat gem of the city’s arts scene, faces an uncertain future along with many other organisations
The beloved Hackney picture house is celebrating 50 years as a community-run enterprise – but as Britain’s oldest continuously operating cinema, its roots go much further back
The world’s most visited museum has been in the headlines in recent months, but the origins of its malaise go back a long way
The vineyard in Provence has become famous for its art and architecture, but making great wine is still its raison d’être
In praise of the artist as a flag-bearer for a particular kind of inscrutable, elegant painting
A 17th-century fresco by Giacinto Platania in Catania’s cathedral captures an eruption that lasted for 122 days
An 18th-century gathering was nothing without a table full of roast hare, yellowhammer pies and truffle-stuffed turkeys
The artist’s love of gold and other metallic pigments shines in his paintings, from the Peacock Room and use of Japanese lacquers to the very titles of his work
Ana María Bresciani of the Munchmuseet explains how Edvard Munch turned the canteen of an Oslo chocolate factory into a de facto gallery of modern art
A former slaughterhouse is home to the city’s newest museum and it’s just the first step in creating a new cultural district
For Benjamin Markovits, a Cornish scene by Michael Canney hits the sweet spot between figuration and abstraction
The name Eames is synonymous with the famous lounge chair they designed, but they were also interested in the big questions about how to build and how to live
The city has been rebuilding the Residenzschloss, home of its one-time ruler Augustus the Strong, since the Second World War – and the results are worth the wait
The V&A hopes its new branch in east London is an answer to how to get younger, more diverse audiences through the door. But can such efforts survive in a changing political landscape?
From her shoe hat to her skeleton dress, the couturier’s playful creations show why she felt so at home with the avant-garde artists of her day
Caravaggio’s portrait of a future Pope and a mannerist painting for the Met are among the most important works to have entered public collections recently
Lina Bo Bardi’s original MASP museum building is a masterpiece and a cleverly conceived new extension leaves it free to operate as originally intended
The Shiraz grape is native to France, but it has longstanding links with Persian courtly life and culture
Established in 1852 by three brothers, the Alinari firm produced many of the oldest photographs of Italy and have left behind a vast archive in Florence
The painter’s townscape of the Dominican church in Vienna shows why he more than lived up to the reputation of his uncle Canaletto
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s classic can sometimes be a byword for whimsy, but its use of CGI was far ahead of its time
