A figure resembling Italy’s prime minister on a Rome church wall blurred the lines between religion and politics
A Black mark on ‘Château Noir’
The Finnish painter of silent stillness is at her most compelling in early Paris works and chilling late portraits
The artist’s deft, arresting sketch is set to make at least $15mn for a wild cat charity
As Art Basel makes its debut in the country, the woman behind the emirate’s multibillion-dollar art strategy talks cultural diplomacy
An exuberant exhibition of late works at the Fondation Beyeler shows the painter at his most liberated
The pioneering New York art dealer was a champion of modern European artists
The Qatari-American artist on growing up in the Gulf, Bedouin trucks and stand-up comedy
The late artists’ desert masterpiece is unrealised half a century after it was conceived, its execution a daunting responsibility
The DJ’s love for ephemera has spun into an art form with photographer Mark Vessey
The Sonnabend Collection brings contemporary art to a 13th-century palace — and might put Mantua on the city-break map
The launch of Art Basel Qatar comes on the back of accelerated activity in the Gulf, though some gallerists have privately voiced concerns
Geometric abstraction is the foundation and formation of this austere yet radiant brutalist home in Belgium
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Lessons on a shared sense of humanity abound in the everyday
Diplomats have been tactfully hanging masterpieces for centuries — collectors should take note
The work of the New York artist, now 93, still feels bracing in a sensuous retrospective at the city’s Jewish Museum
The Thai master on the approach that has made his firm one of the world’s most in-demand practices
Surrealist works on paper and lamp sculptures by the late director are coming to an exhibition at Pace Gallery in Berlin
After butter, ochre is gaining ground
The Northern Irish artist has painted everyone from rock stars to royalty to victims of the Troubles — but each, he says, is a kind of self portrait
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The German artist, whose life story is bound up with the US and Kandinsky, is celebrated in a delectable New York show
Martino Gamper, Bethan Laura Wood and Minjae Kim are amongst the artists and designers elevating the household object in a quirky Californian exhibition
Record-breaking estate sales mask the real, and sometimes declining, value of art
