Exhibition in Bristol, the city of her birth, celebrates Paule Vézelay whose ascent was stymied by sexism and warBritain’s “first” abstract artist, whose legacy has mostly been obscured because of a...
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Read MoreEnclosure older than Salisbury monument found under late novelist’s garden is given heritage protectionWhen the author Thomas Hardy was writing Tess of the D’Urbervilles in 1891, he chose to set the novel’s...
Read MorePainting that hung in former PM’s study since 2009 no longer there – but aides are tightlipped as to whereaboutsIn a summer punctuated by an election and then riots there has not really been a “silly...
Read MoreExclusive: secretive artist trying to cheer up people with pelicans, goat, elephants, monkeys and catA big cat by Banksy appeared briefly, stretching in the morning sun, on a bare advertising hoarding on Edgware Road in...
Read MoreAnother animal-based work appeared on Rye Lane in Peckham, one of a series completed in the capital this weekBanksy’s latest animal-themed artwork has been stolen from London just hours after it went on display.The latest...
Read MoreWatercolour drawing for first book’s cover becomes most expensive item from the series ever sold at auctionA watercolour drawing for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has fetched a record amount at auction.The...
Read MoreExclusive: Potentially thousands of signed works from Currency series were mass-produced by artist’s team after 2016, sources sayAt least 1,000 paintings that the artist Damien Hirst said were “made in 2016”...
Read MoreWhen on holiday in Berwick the artist often gave his work away. Now a new exhibition reveals the value of drawings that survived in a shoebox A 1958 drawing of a family with their dogs by LS Lowry from one of his many holidays...
Read MoreLes Distractions de Dagobert was the surrealist’s ‘definitive masterpiece’, says Sotheby’s expert in New YorkShe was worshipped as a muse by renowned surrealists including André Breton and Max...
Read MoreMining tycoon Gina Rinehart has asked the National Gallery of Australia to remove her portrait, painted by Vincent Namatjira. Others have gone much furtherFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and...
Read MoreExclusive: Sculpture bought by US billionaires was made almost 20 years after date that appears in its nameA Damien Hirst shark preserved in formaldehyde that was purchased by American billionaires was dated to the 1990s even...
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