Prince William and Kate have never looked so conventional
Jamie Coreth’s portrait offers a pair of good likenesses in dutiful style – but shouldn’t our future king aspire to more energetic things?
‘People are still besotted with European art. It is the main story’
Not everything in the past needs to be corrected, says National Gallery director Gabriele Finaldi
The RA Summer Exhibition is a tsunami of smug, hackneyed eco-art
The 254th annual jamboree may have good intentions, but most of these 1,465 works – many from the public – are as genteel as a village fête
Paula Rego brought perversity, violence and political fury to British art
The late painter, born in Salazar’s Portugal, produced disturbing images of violated and humiliated women – and they had a real effect
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Silly, cartoonish, offensive... and selling for millions. Is it time to take digital art seriously?
Last year, there was outrage when a digital collage by Beeple sold for £55million. Our critic meets the artist touted as ‘the new Warhol’
Why the 1990s were the last golden age of culture
Ahead of a BBC season, our critics prove that the happiest decade made the best art
At the Venice Biennale, surreal joys are in, Putin is out – and the stale males are hanging on
The 59th edition of the art extravaganza pays tribute to Ukrainian heroism while delving brilliantly into the weirder corners of our minds
Sonia Boyce, British Pavilion, Venice, review: lacks the X-factor of genuine imaginative strangeness
The British artist's Venice show Feeling Her Way is gentle and tasteful, with an underlying current of social critique, but it doesn't soar
Anish Kapoor's Venice sculptures are gimmicky but crackle with black magic
The highlights of the artist's powerful new exhibition are some strange black sculptures made with his own licensed pigment
Can you tell which Rothko painting is worth £11 million more?
Why do subtle differences between two pieces by the American abstract expressionist artist add up to millions? Blame the art market
Raphael, review: superlative tribute to a brilliant painter (and architect, and plumber...)
Let's stop knocking Raphael – as the National Gallery's new show makes very clear, he was just incredibly good at pretty much everything
Mondrian Moves, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, review: not cold and sterile, but imperfect and human
Piet Mondrian's reputation for being the austere saint of abstract art is challenged by an exhibition that shows a wildly different side
Surprisingly weird: why there is more to Raphael’s portraits than meets the eye
Whether painting popes or prostitutes, the artist got beneath his subjects’ skin to reveal their inner lives – and reinvent portraiture
Leering at Picasso’s sex life has overshadowed his art
John Richardson’s gossipy biography, ‘A life of Picasso’, spills the secrets of the artist’s ‘Minotaur’ years
Donatello isn't an artist, he's a universe: unravelling the mystery of a Renaissance man
A new show in Florence aims to give the often overlooked sculptor and artist his due - by and large it succeeds
Oil be back: is this long-lost, terrifying painting Bacon’s very first pope?
The Gagosian Gallery certainly thinks so, and it's well worth heading to Mayfair to see it (if you dare...)
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