Far from hindering budding Barbara Krugers and Andy Warhols, day jobs have sometimes helped the creative process
Jackie Wullschläger’s biography invites us to take another look at a painter whose canvases make a direct appeal to the eye
The artist bristled at attempts to analyse his work, but an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel suggests that his fluorescent fittings are still open to interpretation
Depictions of lions by leading lights of the Romantic movement and more Academic types reveal humanity’s dark side
The artist has always combined high and low culture, and an exhibition at Waddington Custot captures his witty approach to assemblage
The conservation of two jewel-like panels by Francesco Pesellino is an opportunity to discover a little-known artist who was highly regarded by the Medici
The artist’s harmonious installation at Chisenhale Gallery memorialises his musician grandfather
A centenary celebration of the Edinburgh-born artist puts his collaborative side in the spotlight
The South Korean artist has perfected an aesthetic of harmony and balance that rewards patient looking
At the Whitechapel Gallery, the French-Algerian unspools personal and political histories through imitation sets and empty stages
These timepieces are fluttering, chiming embodiments of how Britain and China traded with each other in the 18th and 19th centuries
In the decades after the Second World War, female artists chafed at the strictures of abstraction and began expressing their gender through their work
An exhibition of the late ceramicist’s creations features only 11 works, but open-minded viewers will find plenty to delight in
The Lebanese artist's new installation cleverly undermines the utopian ambitions of the architecture that surrounds it
An aww-inspiring exhibition explores adorability through the ages, and suggests it can be subversive as well as sweet
As an exhibition at the Royal Academy shows, the Impressionists were never more immediate or intimate than in their drawings
The American star and sometime spy was more than capable of defining her own image, as an exhibition in Berlin makes clear
Artists in the Soviet satellite states often adopted the forms and techniques of mass surveillance to mordant effect
Trade and cultural exchange meant that the iconographical traditions of East Africa and Byzantium had much in common
Making a living in the capital has always been a challenge for creative types, but British television was once very interested in how they managed
Ignacio Zuloaga was once as celebrated as Sorolla, but the artist’s searching paintings soon fell out of favour after his death
From pieces of furniture to works of conceptual art, an exhibition in Milan reveals that folding screens are functional, adaptable and always divisive
What did Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly and Lenore Tawney have in common? They all lived cheek by jowl in a wharfside district of Manhattan
The Estonian artist stretched materials to their limit to create wonderfully distressed and disturbing sculptures
