Joe Lycett sells his painting to the former One Direction frontman for '£6 and a chunky peanut butter Kit Kat'

The new portrait will go on show in a Covid-delayed exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London

The standalone sales come off the back of numerous high-profile projects involving the British artist

The artist will launch his new video across a series of screens at the music event

Last year, the late Microsoft co-founder’s art collection brought in a record $1.6bn over two auctions

The Lightroom project, due to open next year, is backed by Tate Modern sponsor Leonard Blavatnik

A confluence of factors has given the UK art market a lift—but will it last?

LA Louver, Gray, Pace, Annely Juda and Galerie Lelong team up to show the same works at more or less the same time in five different cities

Plus, a Pre-Raphaelite treasure, an iconic James Bond poster and a set of nine intricately inlaid panels

The 24ft wide canvas is one of the treasures in ‘I Am Here’, a thematic exhibition of artists’ collections, lists and depictions of everyday scenes

The historian Martin Kemp tells us what it was like co-curating a new show of the artist’s works, displayed amongst the masterpieces of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge

"The world is very beautiful, but human beings are quite mad," says the British artist

The work, which took four months to paint in 2002, will be auctioned at Sotheby's this month

This is the moment to ask for fresh ideas and give space to artists more deserving of exposure—so why has the Royal Academy given its main galleries to iPad 'paintings'?

Martin Gayford’s book pays tribute to Britain’s greatest living artist before an exhibition at London’s Royal Academy

All you ever wanted to know about Hockney, from the best biography to the artist's “radical” investigations into art history—selected by the critic (and longtime friend) Martin Gayford

Despite Covid-19, the show will open with works now safely flown across the Atlantic

We look ahead at the events to enjoy this year—assuming coronavirus doesn't scupper them

Devaney, previously at the RA for 22 years, will oversee artist’s catalogue raisonné among other projects

A student of Duncan Grant and Oskar Kokoschka whose Clandeboye Yoghurt pictures made her the world’s “most famous disposable artist”

The portrait of David Webster will return immediately to the opera house before going to the National Portrait Gallery in 2023 for its reopening exhibition

UK’s leading artist sends two new images of hope

The auction house's four-part £90.2m "20th Century: London to Paris" sale saw small bursts of energy for quality lots in the wake of Frieze and Fiac's cancellations

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist talks about how it is important to really "see"

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist talks about being part of the great landscape painting tradition

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist shows his en plein air painting style

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist discusses why he pursued illustration when others deemed it unworthy

In behind-the-scenes footage from an award-winning documentary, the British artist discusses how mirrors and lenses were used by Old Masters to create proto-photographic images