From a Vietnam war veteran turned ceramicist to a sci-fi-loving minimalist, there is a deep well of life experience at Frieze New York
From Giorgio Vasari to Agnes Martin, artists and writers have long insisted on the importance of being alone to create
Some artists are embracing the technology but many galleries are lagging badly behind — and may be forced to confront it
Pineapples, butterflies and Elvis impersonators populate the work of the Filipino-Canadian artist and filmmaker, on show at Frieze New York
The FT’s critics recommend the most compelling 2026 shows, from Cecily Brown and Hurvin Anderson to Tracey Emin to Zurbarán
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?
Saints and still lifes populate a compelling show of an overlooked Spanish painter with a particular flair for texture
From a sixth-century saint to today’s dating gurus, we have always sought wisdom in codes and regulations, as a new exhibition shows
Milan, San Francisco and New York have stellar exhibitions, and the hotels to match
The painter and sculptor challenged his nation’s recollections of — or unwillingness to recall — its traumatic recent history
A startlingly broad survey follows the photographer’s stylistic shifts as she recorded the infinite variations of urban chaos
Historian Thomas W Laqueur’s copiously illustrated book explores why dogs have long been an integral feature of the artistic world
The artist’s work with movement, space — and time — has inspired three recent exhibitions, and a newly planted memorial
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
Anna Thomasson mixes biography with photographic analysis to explore the tangled relationships of Picasso, Lee Miller and their circle in the summer of 1937
Dreamscape paintings by an artist whose life was cut tragically short will be on dazzling display at Venice’s Palazzo Tiepolo Passi
London’s Whitechapel Gallery has appointed Mariana Mazzucato as its first economist-in-residence — to ask how society defines what is valuable
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
Engrossing show at Paris’s Fondation Louis Vuitton is perfectly at home in Frank Gehry’s striking building
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
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