For tens of thousands of years, these Palaeolithic artworks were unseen. When they were rediscovered, onlookers marvelled at their vivid beauty. One of the world’s leading experts took me up closeThe aurochs, the mammoth...
Read MoreForget queuing at the Louvre or the Uffizi. You’ll find a fresh perspective on everything from medieval to modern art in places like Lille, Verona and ZurichZurich may be known as a financial centre, but it has a creative...
Read MoreWho says hair can’t be art? We meet Taiba Akhuetie, who uses flowing human and synthetic locks to take brollies, tables, chairs, lampshades, handbags and more into a wild and wavy new dimensionTaiba Akhuetie’s art is...
Read MoreEight decades after liberation from the Nazis, silence, shame and a struggling legal system keep Jewish property in Dutch family homesSeveral months ago, the Dutch art detective Arthur Brand was surprised to be contacted by a...
Read MoreIn antiquity, women were considered the more sexual sex – hornier, more libidinous and lust-fuelled than men. Why did that perception change?All across the world, you will probably have read, people are having less sex. In...
Read MoreAfter a breakup, photographer Diana Markosian hired an actor to play her ex-boyfriend in hope of finding closureFalling in and then out of love is a universal experience that often brings sadness, grief and heartbreak, and with...
Read MoreDespite a call for calm, a combustible mix of politics and protest punctuated the preview week across the pavilionsEvery two years the art world assembles in Venice for a sprawling celebration of visual arts at which countries...
Read MoreWhen Mitch Cairns met Agatha Gothe-Snape, he was instantly charmed. Then an absurd exchange shifted their relationship into something more than friendshipThe first time I saw Agatha she was saturated, standing in a knee-high...
Read MoreBarenaked bell ringers, banned opera singers and mind-boggling dog-owner relationships … the art at this year’s biennale has people calling the copsShe’s famous for her extreme performances and Florentina...
Read MoreA new show of this Welsh-born artist’s mesmerising portraits is worth visiting for one nude alone: a painting of an eyes-closed, long-legged, elegant brunette, inspired by Sleeping VenusSylvia Sleigh wouldn’t paint...
Read MoreOpening of ‘the dressed body’ show inspires Beyoncé, Kardashians and Skepta, as others pay tribute to fashion moments in art historyTwo assets the modern 1% love to show off are their designer wardrobes...
Read MoreHe painted sea battles, the labours of Hercules and breathtaking still lifes. But, as a major new exhibition makes clear, it was in his thrilling depictions of the spiritual that the Spanish master showed his true geniusAgainst...
Read More
Jamie and Rebekah Vardy’s new reality show will disappoint
Craig and Lindsay Foreman, both aged 53, given 10-year
With procedures like filler and Botox becoming commonplace, audiences
The second tranche of documents related to the appointment
Mark Nowak had asked for his son’s murder not
The prime minister said: ‘I have seen the body
Ex-health secretary was described as ‘hysterical’ on issue by
Spokesperson says function is in line with official guidance
Student groups tell inquiry about ballooning debt and ‘sneaky
Mathew Lawrence and Mark McVitie, previously seen as favouring