Why a sleeping hermaphrodite is causing a stir at Christie’s
Horace Walpole’s aunt once quipped that the hermaphrodite was ‘the only happy couple she ever saw’. A bronze variation on the theme comes to auction soon...
Horace Walpole’s aunt once quipped that the hermaphrodite was ‘the only happy couple she ever saw’. A bronze variation on the theme comes to auction soon...
Ulla von Brandenburg’s installations create a theatrical encounter with the viewer, using film, staging, and architecture
Paintings by Michelangelo, Leonardo and Caravaggio have been infiltrated with pizza slices in the name of pizza delivery.
'When this collection began, no one thought that Islam would be on everyone's lips'
Sir Nicholas Serota
The Virgin of the Pomegranate, Fra Angelico (Museo del Prado)
With a new museum due to open in Cape Town soon, a growing gallery scene, and burgeoning international interest in contemporary African art, signs are good
Materials range from concrete to soap bubbles; subjects include mass extinction and internet cats. This is a bizarre mix of work, but a fascinating one
Sabine Haag, the director-general of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, discusses how one of the world's grandest museums is preparing for the future
Having a laugh with Bob Rauschenberg; the man who would be Van Gogh; and rock'n'roll stories from Johnny Marr and Sean Lennon
FIFA shelled out millions on the new World Football Museum but it still looks set to attract fewer visitors this year than a Cristiano Ronaldo-themed museum
Between them the Barnes Foundation and the Baltimore Museum of Art have an enviable set of works by Matisse - and their exhibitions and events reflect this
Very few drawings by Titian survive. This one is a beautiful and invaluable document that has changed our understanding of his work
A look at the highlights at Sotheby's and Christie's - plus a major sale in Stockholm, and the latest from Abu Dhabi
The French artist's Turbine Hall commission continues his interest in the exhibition as a living organism
The Bullingdon comes to the block; beauty and the beast of brutalism; a disaster in Lisbon; and an avian seance in a London gallery
‘A method matters little,’ Rousseau maintained, ‘one tries everything’. See the full span of his dizzyingly diverse practice in Copenhagen this winter
There are no better examples of piqué posé tortoiseshell in the world. How often may this be said of a work of art on the market?
There's something for everyone as Cologne Fine Art, WIKAM, Art & Antique Hofburg and the Winter Art & Antiques Fair all open
It's high time Koo Jeong-A and Cho Yong-Ik were better known in the UK. Thankfully, both currently have exhibitions in the capital