‘Men want to order their subjects around’ – this photographer captures life in all its imperfection
From Prague to Portobello Road, Markéta Luskačová's pictures shows children – across the decades – ‘simply as they are’
From Prague to Portobello Road, Markéta Luskačová's pictures shows children – across the decades – ‘simply as they are’
From Lizzie Siddal to Jane Birkin, discussions around women inspiring ‘creative geniuses’ now feel old-fashioned and clichéd
After his success with Coal Drops Yard, the celebrated designer has a new challenge: overhauling the dilapidated Olympia exhibition hall
The Turner Prize winner leads a visual tour through his life in six artworks – from college days to knighthood
From the Palladian to the perverse – Hugh Pearman’s book on the most accessible art form is sure to stimulate further study
By mixing the rococo with the ridiculous, 32-year-old Flora Yukhnovich's paintings now sell for millions
Tate Modern's attempt to represent a continent that's home to 1.2 billion people is a sprawling affair with some remarkable highs
Amid sliding prices and dwindling auction takings, the likes of Grayson Perry and Frank Auerbach prove the market isn't out yet
The artist Pauline Boty and her ‘Anti-Uglies’ protest movement fought to make Britain's ‘stodgy’ buildings sexy. What’s their legacy today?
John Wonnacott's 12-ft-high work - painted in 1999 - depicts four generations of royals with the Queen Mother seated on a golden couch
From Pulp and the Proms to Barbie and The Bear, our critics mark your cultural calendar for July and August
Manchester International Festival's blockbuster exhibition is a family-friendly safe bet with its childlike world of colourful surrealism
The last portrait by the Austrian master has become the most valuable work of art sold at auction in Europe
At the National Portrait Gallery, you can see over 250 of Macca’s images, made in 1963-4 – but others were shooting The Beatles, and better
A £13 million revamp has turned London’s old – and faintly unsettling – Museum of Childhood into something for children of all ages
From Cleopatra to Callas, an exhibition at the V&A reveals the contradiction at the heart of female celebrity
Locked up, beaten and only allowed to paint between 9am and noon, Jean Cooke found creative salvation in nature – like many women before her
Ahead of Thursday's reopening to the public, we share an exclusive preview of the gallery’s £41m transformation
Reopening after a three-year closure, the gallery’s remodelling should delight both its core audience and newcomers alike
The Barbican’s triumphant retrospective cements the American photographer and filmmaker’s reputation as a master storyteller