Toor’s electrifying pictures have made him a global star – and he’s even painted Zohran Mamdani. As the artist hits London’s prestigious Courtauld Gallery, he talks about Manet, mullahs and the mayorIn Salman Toor’s paintings,...
Read MoreHe is famed for creating a golden loo that was stolen and a $6m banana that was eaten. But, says the sculptor ahead of a major new show in Germany, there’s more to his work than pranks and provocationMaurizio Cattelan, the art...
Read MoreThe artist’s latest swerve sees her creating an alien inflatable landscape for New York’s Balloon MuseumOversized inflatable blades of grass graze my face as I wind a path through the glowing white gallery space. Little papery...
Read MoreTate Modern, LondonThis exhibition makes nothing of the Cuban-American artist’s controversial death – instead it focuses on the astounding way she left an imprint of herself on the earth using blood, feathers and gunpowderA huge...
Read MoreWant to see some old wonders but don’t fancy forking out £33 for 40 minutes with a tapestry? Our critic celebrates the British treasures you can see all year round – from monstrous crypt carvings to the vaulting glory of our...
Read MoreWant to see some old wonders but don’t fancy forking out £33 for 40 minutes with a tapestry? Our critic celebrates the British treasures you can see all year round – from monstrous crypt carvings to the vaulting glory of our...
Read MoreFrom a mural in a baby’s bedroom to a sound sculpture designed to be played out of a convertible, top contemporary artists rose to the challenge of making work for one lucky communityIn 1986, an exhibition called Chambres d’Amis...
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 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 people if she...
Read MoreEqually inspired by childbirth manuals, Georgia O’Keeffe and her own hormones, pregnancy and motherhood, Hollowell paints beautiful anatomical abstractions. She opens up about her cosmic birth and out-of-body experience‘It’s...
Read MoreShow draws almost entirely from collection of Lancashire schoolteacher Peter Smithson, a fan since he was 10Peter Smithson’s wife, Belise, has never minded when he receives a corset from Japan or a pair of fur-trimmed knickers...
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