Organisers, speakers and curators see the most diverse festival to date as a chance to demonstrate that art history is central to education and to reading the signals of modern life
The artist's subversive collage work for the Sex Pistols' single 'God Save The Queen' was a defining image of 1970s protest
The outspoken leader of three Italian governments between 1994 and 2011 was often publicly critical of contemporary art and architecture projects in Italy
After NFT boom, blockchain technology is increasingly being used to help solve art industry's practical problems
Government funding helps acquire Surrey house and garden that launched the global careers of the architect Edwin Lutyens and the garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, whose home it was for nearly 40 years
New York exhibition Kenyan Collectives at Affirmation Arts focuses on existential threats to Kenya’s wildlife and water supply
From Lauren Halsey's new commission for the Met rooftop to funkily subversive sculptures at the Museum of Arts and Design, the season's essential exhibitions
Christie's marks coronation by auctioning portrait in aid of BBC Children in Need and holding exhibitions of Shakespeare's First Folio and the work of Royal Drawing School alumni
Belafonte cited Pablo Picasso and his artist friend Charles White among the visual and performing artists whose support of social justice movements inspired his activism
Australian comedian and actor was a passionate champion of museums, libraries and the visual arts, and a collector of late 19th-century artists and authors
The British artist's latest venture, a tech-heavy development of the Spin Paintings launched in 1992, touches all the tech buzzwords as collectors order one-off NFTs from a dashboard menu
The American artist re-examines the myth of the Wild West in her new painted textile works—and shows a fabric figure from her co-creation of the legendary "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover
Innovative architect was at heart of rebuilding independent India, a protégé of Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn, and winner of the Pritzker Prize and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal
Uruguayan-born architect had an acute understanding of the visual arts and produced prize-winning buildings
The Art Newspaper’s obituaries editor speaks to the New York artist about how his journalistic training informs his tributes to figures like Greta Thunberg and Dolly Parton
Lehr was the co-founder of the Continuum women's art collective and used her art to address the challenges of global warming and rising sea levels
The German-born conservative pontiff, a noted theological scholar, tried to accommodate contemporary art but became a subject of satire
Martin Parr and Juergen Teller are among the artists who captured the Brazilian star's gift for friendship and personal diplomacy
The artists Paula Rego and Sam Gilliam, the gallerist Virginia Dwan, the critic Peter Schjeldahl and the patron of the arts John Sainsbury were among the other influential figures lost to the art world this year
Phillips's masterpiece is A Humument, a 50-year recreation, redrawing and rewriting of a long-forgotten Victorian novel, that informed the artist's wider output, including an opera and his translation of Dante's Inferno
The Brazilian digital artist is creating a multi-level collaborative game as part of the Serpentine Galleries' Artist Worlds programme, and minting tokens with the Tezos Ecosystem blockchain
The first scholarly study of a true dilettante of Old Masters, antiquities and new works, reveals an indomitable, questing soul
He inherited his family's Ascott House collection of English furniture, Chinese porcelain, British paintings and Old Masters, and built a new collection of Modern and contemporary works with his third wife, Lynn Forester
The pioneering Swedish artist is having a moment, with a newly-released biopic, new VR and AR experiences and NFT editions
Gazelli Art House’s exhibition is devoted to Cohen’s work on—and with—his art-making program, AARON
Seventy-eight years after her death, the artist famed for her geometric and spiral forms, has realised her goal of creating a giant temple for her work— thanks to cutting-edge technology
The British sovereign made herself globally visible, using personal presence, coded symbolism, and the power of broadcasting, to uphold a constitutional monarchy in an era of unparalleled social change
Over seven decades, the monarch used ceremonial, media and heritage to project soft power around the globe
The Icelandic-Danish artist talks exclusively to The Art Newspaper about his viewer-first approach to his work Your view matter, which is available to all in AR and VR
Briggs used his charming, low-tech visual style to devastating emotional effect in his adult, anti-war books as much as in his beloved children's tales and their film adaptations