From Giorgio Vasari to Agnes Martin, artists and writers have long insisted on the importance of being alone to create
Pineapples, butterflies and Elvis impersonators populate the work of the Filipino-Canadian artist and filmmaker, on show at Frieze New York
A friend of Jung, the Dutch abstractionist and mystic amassed 6,000 mythological, ritual and symbolic images to interpret the ‘collective unconscious’
The Austrian artist’s bloated cars and puffed-up houses poke fun at consumer culture — but are curators scared of them offending gallery-goers?
Artists on the late curator Koyo Kouoh’s vision; interviews with Lubaina Himid, Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Gabrielle Goliath; and upheaval at the US pavilion
The silk square has thousands of iterations. But which are the ‘grails’?
A century after its invention, the form seems to have lost its nerve — but in Venice, two bold artists are preparing to test audiences’ limits
Dreamscape paintings by an artist whose life was cut tragically short will be on dazzling display at Venice’s Palazzo Tiepolo Passi
Painters, sculptors and filmmakers have interpreted the curator’s title ‘In Minor Keys’ as a prompt to resist spectacle — and return to the essence of artmaking
Gabrielle Goliath’s ‘Elegy’, which pays tribute to a Palestinian poet killed by an Israeli strike, will be shown at the Chiesa di Sant’Antonin
The latest stop on the painter’s rise to art-world fame is the British pavilion at Venice, where personal history and her fizzing palette collide
Materials and categories are swiftly dissolving, as a young cohort of artists looks to meet the present moment
The Turner Prize winner’s forensic work is fuelled by a belief that sounds can reveal hidden violence
Acclaimed artists William Eggleston and Barbara Chase-Riboud turned down the controversial commission — now the once-niche Alma Allen will represent the US
Curator Terence Lane amassed a stunning collection of 19th-century work in Melbourne. Now it’s going to auction
Trove including works by John Keats and Oscar Wilde will be auctioned by family for charity in New York
And collectors are still saying yes
Auction house benefits from improved sales as art market returns to growth
It’s ‘treasure hiding in plain sight’
The orthodoxy of museums, galleries and critics is viewed with suspicion by new tastemakers
The Sotheby’s star on stage presence, the San Francisco Giants and selling a $45mn stegosaurus
Santander’s plan to move the Gelman art collection to Spain has resulted in local anger
Replicating chinoiserie porcelain at home was a popular hobby of the era — and surviving pieces have a curious charm
Art from South Asia is gaining ground, powered by domestic demand and industrial billionaires
From exquisite horse paintings to Lee Bul’s failed utopias, here are the local artistic highlights away from HKCEC
