Auction results were stellar 12 months ago, but sense and caution meant the houses had to work hard for more sober results this time round

The Warburg Institute’s director is tapping into its founder Aby Warburg’s approach to historical images to explain Daesh’s shocking brutality

The forger Shaun Greenhalgh’s boast that he made this chalk drawing may be fantasy, but claims that it is the work of Leonardo continue to be seen as equally dubious

Movies about artists may not be nailed-on money-spinners, but more and more are appearing—and some are even box-office hits.

Real-estate price hikes have hastened the development of a northern gallery hub

London Craft Week celebrates makers from across the world in more than 120 events. Five of the 200-plus makers at the festival tell us about their work

The German car-maker takes cultural sponsorship very seriously, as shown by its arts education policy and links with MoMA

The relationship between public institutions and private dealers has historically taken many forms, and is anything but simple

Fifty years after its opening, the pioneers of Minimalism recall the groundbreaking exhibition Primary Structures

The new National Gallery Singapore joins forces with the Centre Pompidou

As shows of his work open at opposite ends of the US, the nomadic Korean-born artist explains how his coloured cloth installations reflect his transient existence

Horrified by the slaughter of the First World War, the Dadaists espoused irrationality to ridicule the logic that had led to war. But Dada’s influence has stretched far past 1918

The UK artist has been doing some soul-searching. He tells us about his latest works, partly inspired by Freud, and his own experiences of psychoanalysis

With the ground-breaking Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset hitting the mainstream later this year, a growing number of artists and museums are incorporating this and other new technologies into their work

In an extract from his new book, Christopher Rothko explains how the master of abstraction absorbed the stylistic principles and emotional contradictions of the 18th-century genius

As his Venice Biennale film makes its UK debut, the British film-maker discusses growing up as a communist, the perennial issue of human migration—and why he has moved away from cinema and towards art

With its infamous Modern art collection, a Tehran museum has enticed international curators and struck lucrative deals with institutions in the West. But has it sparked a wider renaissance in the Tehran art scene?

The Dutch artist Jonas Staal is working in Syria’s autonomous Kurdish region, alongside freedom fighters whose philosophy includes a radical feminist rejection of the state, in an attempt to challenge the accepted view of democracy and the role of the artist within it

The late Yves Saint Laurent’s partner, Pierre Bergé, is auctioning his world-class personal library over two years to help build spaces in Paris and Marrakech

As a major exhibition opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the US artist reflects on how beauty is “a given” in art—and how, after nearly 60 years, he is still pursuing “the problems of painting”

Once the idealistic creation of intellectuals, Unesco is now dominated by diplomats and hamstrung by budget collapse, the debasement of its gold-standard heritage lists by narrow economic and nationalist interests, and a huge and rigid governance structure

Property price rises and rapid redevelopment in the capital are forcing artists to seek studio space in the suburbs and beyond.

The seeds of globalisation were sown by Europe and the Americas’ insatiable appetite for exotic goods

Country's artists are reaping the benefits of a diplomatic thaw between Iran and the West

When Frieze Masters pitches its elegant tent, a corner of Regent’s Park becomes a temporary kunstkammer. Here are six rare and intriguing works—and the stories behind them—in our very own cabinet for the curious