The Royal Academy of Arts' assistant curator Rebecca Bray talks us through five of the Finnish artist’s key works

Johnny Dewe Mathews on his exhibition of 1970s photographs at New Art Centre

The botanical illustrations of Alexander von Humboldt in poster form

Martin Lister enlisted his daughters Susanna and Anna because of the unreliability of the best professional engravers

No Chucky or Lord of the Flies in portraits by British and British-based artists

Largely overlooked postscript suggests surprise friendship between the Van Gogh brothers and the young Belgian

Unusual month-long display of recently restored work by Leonardo’s favourite and heir will be lent by the State Hermitage Museum

Almost unknown in Britain, his work was secretly amassed by Harry Hyams, the billionaire property developer

Latin American artists feature prominently in the collection of the Chilean supporter of women's rights

"I remember my mum painting cherry blossoms in the garden, when I was five or six—I think I ate some paint."

We take a sneak peek inside the British artist's studio to see him creating his Blossom paintings

Hirst has spent the past 18 months in his London studio painting cherry blossom and now, in an exclusive interview, he explains why this new body of work is a matter of life and death

Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why

From the Leipzig School artist Neo Rauch at the Drawing Center, to Nari Ward at the New Museum, there's plenty to see around New York City during Frieze

The British artist dominates the Van Gogh Museum’s dubious doubleheader, which offers little to connect the pair

Discovered after 165 years, eight of the 19 paintings will be included in the London exhibition in September

Book looks at the former official darling of the American republic

The artist on portraying ordinary people and travelling the world with a “local spirit”

Art lovers tell us what they’ve bought and why

While well known in the West, the work of this major figure of Austrian Expressionism is less recognised in Asia—until now

The enormously productive painter wielded the fastest of brushes on often huge canvases, suffusing them with Spanish sun and colour

An exhibition focuses on The Birth of the World, a 1925 painting in which the artist combined painterly spontaneity with a calligraphic deliberation

From Frida Kahlo’s personal items at the Brooklyn Museum to the work of Jamaica-born artist Nari Ward at the New Museum, there’s plenty to see off-pier

The Gramercy International Art Fair was the edgy alternative to establishment fairs when it first began—reimagined as The Armory Show, it has grown into an economic juggernaut

Phoenix Art Museum hosts first US survey of the Californian artist in more than two decades

As shows marking the 350th anniversary of the Old Master's death open, we look at his masterpieces at the Rijksmuseum, Dulwich Picture Gallery and the British Museum. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Moral painting of Venus and Cupid by the German Renaissance master shows the young god of desire being attacked by bees

Painters from Brangwyn to Nash paid homage to the masterpiece, all illustrated on the Art UK site

Global digital resource provides valuable environmental documentation from an age before photography

Exhibition aims to reassess French artist’s reputation and revel in depth and detail of his work