At the centre of Banco Santander’s former headquarters on the Paseo de Pereda is a monumental arch. Built in 1951 by Javier González de Riancho to join two neighbouring buildings, it belonged to a ...

In mid May this year, New York felt even more like the centre of the art world than it has in recent years. The big auctions coinciding with heavy-hitting fairs Frieze, Independent and TEFAF reminded ...

Next week, staff at the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington will stage two days of strike action – as a breakdown in industrial relations spreads west. Strikes earlier this month already hit ...

The Breuer building is abuzz this month with 57 exhibitors presenting work by some 130 avant-garde artists at Independent 20th Century. But for anyone wanting to sample a different flavour of modern ...

The Vienna Workshop was a linchpin of the city’s avant-garde creative scene in the early 19th century. The wares of 30 Jewish women from its cohort of artists, designers and artisans are presented ...

Salman Toor spent years copying baroque, rococo and neoclassical paintings before encountering the work of modern South Asian artists: intimate scenes by Amrita Sher-Gil, Bhupen Khakhar’s fantastical ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) sometimes gets a hard time from critics – and makers of memes. Some see indifferent compositions, careless brushwork, overly saturated colours and a sentimental gaze; ...

Over the next few months the Château de Chambord is paying tribute to great banquets of the past by laying out four historic table services (26 September–24 January 2027). The first speculatively ...

The recent retrospective of the work of Beatriz González (1932–2026) at London’s Barbican Art Gallery epitomised the defining struggle of modern Colombian art. This was an art mocking its own ...

In this week’s edition of dinner parties your roving correspondent can only dream of being invited to: the state banquet held by Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., for Chinese president Xi Jinping, ...

The new catalogue raisonné of Brice Marden’s paintings carries some brief but evocative notes on individual works, and the one appended to the entry on Nebraska (1966) quotes the artist’s recollection ...

This year’s edition of the New York fair sets out to transform how we think about the last 100 years of art history ‘Homogeneous’ is rarely a term that is used as a compliment. It seems to be the case ...