The Academy’s £56m project opens, with subtle additions and revamps by the British architect. Chipperfield talks about the subtleties of architecture, the RA’s chief executive Charles Saumarez Smith discusses funding and the quirks of the institution and we review the buildings and its displays with Jane Morris.

The Taddei Tondo has not always been treated as a masterpiece

Once seen as a bastion of tradition ignored by young artists, the institution's postgraduate fine art course has become the most desirable in London

London institution’s founders included two women, but a long period of male domination has only recently been challenged

Delve into the heart of the revamped London institution—expanded, embellished and eccentric as ever

Heni Talks: Alison Cole examines the Taddei Tondo—the only marble sculpture by the Italian master in the UK

Monet takes on the city at the National Gallery and it is the final week of the once-in-a-lifetime Charles I show at the Royal Academy

Salvatore Settis on the moral revival that could save Italy's sinking city, plus Tacita Dean on her three major London shows

From genre fluidity to the British artist's love of analogue film

I only found out by accident how well off the museum really is

Arts minister Michael Ellis has stepped in to prevent the painting from being exported

New London show has received glowing reviews but there is one conspicuous absentee

From a triumphant show of Charles I's collection at the Royal Academy to an Andreas Gursky retrospective at the revamped Hayward Gallery

We pick apart the latest smash hit show to open in London with art historian Bendor Grosvenor, then complete our 2018 preview with a look at the big exhibitions coming to the US this year

Royal Academy of Arts show has received near unanimous reviews

Grayson Perry kicks off a series of three solo shows by RA artists at the Gallery at Windsor

Exhibition will include paintings by Titian, Mantegna and Van Dyck

Acquisition heralds triptych of London shows dedicated to Dean

When I put an image of a well-known Titian on the screen, only one of 40 could identify the artist

From striking new spaces in France and the US to major revamps of old favourites in London and Los Angeles

From King Charles I to the King of Pop

Royal Academy of Arts exhibition explores the history of drawing the human figure and how artists depict it today

Age-old practice is being ‘gradually reinvigorated', but new frontier is seemingly in 3D reprographic skills

From the Merrie Monarch's display of power at the Queen's Gallery to a family-friendly Winnie-the-Pooh show at the Victoria and Albert Museum

“So many tropes going on in his work, it would make a lovely laundry list,” says the British artist of his US counterpart