Abbas Akhavan’s art is guided by a deep appreciation of the rhythms of the natural world. Ahead of his presentation at the Venice Biennale, he talks to Hettie Judah about how he has grown as an artist
Ana María Bresciani of the Munchmuseet explains how Edvard Munch turned the canteen of an Oslo chocolate factory into a de facto gallery of modern art In , Johan Throne Holst, Norwegian politician, industrialist and founder of the Freia...
Duchamp’s Fountain is perhaps the most famous artwork of the 20th century, but its creator’s intentions are still endlessly debated, writes Nicole Rudick Marcel Duchamp (1887 1968) on the deck of the SS Paris in New York on 26 February 1927
Whistler’s fixation on the play of light on surfaces often shows up in his work – from the Peacock Room to his nocturnes – in gilt form, writes Tara Contractor Recalling Whistler at work on his infamous Peacock Room, the painter Mortimer...
