Artists were just as dedicated to the avant-garde as their peers in architecture and music, but were the results of their efforts as radical?
Canadian and Scandinavian painters approached their respective landscapes in distinctive ways and with differing levels of realism
While museums are desperate to stop climate actions involving works of art, a gallery in London has put defaced paintings front and centre, tomato soup and all
The artist has been making installations about bees for years. His apian interests are now the subject of an exhibition at the World Museum
The innovations of artists in the first half of the 14th century created new pathways for painting for centuries to come
A study of the painter’s business practices finds faults with her financial acumen and artistic training – though not everyone will agree
Technology and ornament went hand in hand at the court of Louis XIV, and his successors expected the same from the scientific advances of their day
The artist painted the Wertheimers 12 times, in portraits that shed light on the changing fortunes of an extraordinary family
As the Hungarian-American artist celebrates his 80th birthday, is his brand of conceptual art still as radical as it once was?
The artist’s monochrome sculptures made of everyday objects are full of menace and all the more exhilarating for it
These artistic experiments by early embracers of new technologies already look charmingly retro
Whether Orphism can be called a coherent movement is one thing, but its practitioners produced some excellent art
A touring exhibition of gladiatorial objects found in Britain makes a stab at getting to the heart of our fascination with the amphitheatre, but does it succeed?
The British Library’s exhibition of women in the Middle Ages who were creative and intellectual pioneers is a red-carpet affair
In his final works, some of which have never been shown before, the endlessly restless artist adopted an abstract style that challenges us to look for hidden meanings
Brady Corbet’s epically long film starring Adrien Brody as a Bauhaus-trained architect in America conveniently pretends that all the real Bauhaus-trained architects who made it to America never existed
The Disney star was a marvel of 20th-century industrial production and the Second World War was his finest hour, writes Todd McEwen
Tim Blanning’s masterful biography demonstrates that the despotic ruler of Saxony and Poland was rubbish at war, but had absolutely fabulous taste in art
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan’s exhibition about the capital’s lost green spaces yields a rich crop of curiosities
The artist’s collages inspired by his time in Paris reflect his love of the city’s music scene and reverence for the likes of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong
The actor may not have had much range, but he always played himself to perfection and brought that sense of panache to his most famous role
The story of an artist who has been forgotten for nearly 200 years reflects the hopes and failures of the turbulent times he lived through
Glenn Adamson’s new book shows that predictions about the future have always spoken volumes about the present
The painter’s vibrant domestic scenes are full of revealing details – and so is Isabelle Cahn’s weighty new biography of the painter
