Colin Raff proceeds into the biotic sculpture room

A friend testifies to the reality of one’s memories. A friend rescues the past from unreality...

In Vincent van Gogh's fragile condition, the strong, enduring trees with their anguished limbs seemed to echo Christ’s suffering...

In Genesis 21:8, Abraham’s making a great feast. There’s lots of hamburgers. Oh, yeah. And spaghetti...

Goya’s first big opportunity as an artist came in 1772...

What is self-determination in an algorithmic age?

Theoretically the insect could have been been trapped in the olive grove or the artist’s studio...

This small stone man shows the fathomless silent darkness in our past. He is the wordless night...

When an exhibition is devoted to a theme, its paintings take a backseat, often to the detriment of the paintings...

Constable’s work depicts a quiet, pastoral scene on the River Stour, which forms part of the border between Essex and Suffolk...

When it comes to matters of the courtroom, some cases are surely easier to empathise with than others. A sketch artist may have a personal connection to the plight of the accused or accuser...

Was Walter Benjamin correct in suggesting a relationship between art and fascism?

Su Shi’s work speaks beyond time and place and returns us to our shared life, our shared uncertainty, our shared search...

Disappointed as soldiers, the Macchiaioli went back to their paintbrushes and began creating paintings of the Italy they had known before the Austrian occupation...

The avant-garde was banned in the USSR for over five decades. Between 1932 and the end of the 1980s, Soviet artists were compelled to abandon any creative experimentation. The work they had once done, held in museums throughout the country, was hidden away and sometimes destroyed...

I imagined the scroll’s spread—it motivated me to abandon archival research in the British Library and travel to Bikaner...

For Dosso, the burgeoning foliage of the countryside outside the coastal town that can be glimpsed through the trees is as much of a subject as the human action...

Tintoretto needed no more than the outlines of the figures—no more than their idea—for them to come to life...

We will only take as many fish as can fit into this basket. We must only use what the tree gives us...