13 February 2012 01:44 PM
This week an exhibition of British painter Lucian Freud's drawings opens at the Blain|Southern gallery in London, staged to coincide with the major exhibition of his work at the National Portrait Gallery.
13 February 2012 12:00 AM
Winston Churchill and Evelyn Waugh hated his work, but Picasso provided inspiration for a whole generation of UK artists, as Arifa Akbar discovers at Tate Britain's new exhibition
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
Images look more mysterious when you shoot them at night," muses the British photographer Joel Devlin – not least, one might add, when using a 40-minute exposure to create eerie landscapes, as he did for "Light Waves & Dark Currents", a series that won him an award from the Association of Photographers in 2010 in the Environment category.
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
In 1934 Ben Nicholson visited the Paris studio of Piet Mondrian. According to Charles Darwent, author of a new book, it was a moment that electrified – and divided – parochial British art
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
Move it!
11 February 2012 12:00 AM
Thanks to the country's famous privacy laws, the Swiss banking industry holds colossal fortunes within its vaults. Photographer Mark Henley trains his lens on a high-finance haven. Click on the gallery above to see his images.
10 February 2012 11:15 AM
Although must of us put cotton against our skin almost everyday, in the form of socks and T-shirts, the story of cotton is far from everyday, which is why it has been turned into an extensive exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
10 February 2012 12:00 AM
When academic and biographer Paula Byrne announced the discovery of what seemed to be a new drawing of Jane Austen, there was a frenzied debate over the picture's authenticity. Arguments are bound to be reignited by the news that the controversial portrait will go on display at the Bodleian Library in Oxford as part of the celebrations for World Book Day, before moving to Jane Austen's House Museum in Chawton this April. The picture, showing a thin-faced woman gripping an inky quill, accentuates Austen's professionalism.
10 February 2012 12:00 AM
Laura's launch
10 February 2012 12:00 AM
What better way to see a city than in all the colours of the rainbow? After winning a competition to transform the roof area of the ARoS museum of art in Aarhus, Denmark, last year, Olafur Eliasson installed a 150-metre long multi-coloured circular walkway that looks like a glowing halo from afar. Visitor numbers have more than doubled since.
07 February 2012 11:55 AM
Visitors to a famous museum stare in awe at ancient wonders - the ideal starting point for a cultural tour
07 February 2012 10:49 AM
Throughout the history of British art, the experience of family life and its impact on who we are has provided rich inspiration for artists. From formal portraits of powerful families, long before the dawn of photography, to intimate glimpses into our home lives, an exhibition currently at Museums Sheffield shows how images inspired by those closest to us have always been some of our most revealing.
07 February 2012 12:00 AM
Arifa Akbar looks forward to Tate Modern's retrospective of Italian artist Alighiero Boetti
06 February 2012 01:41 PM
Q&A with photojournalist Judah Passow who has used his camera to document Jewish communities in the UK
06 February 2012 12:00 AM
Turner and the Elements is exhibiting in Margate. It shows perfectly the artist's genius for capturing the power of nature, says Adrian Hamilton
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