Georg Baselitz

The best artist alive? Probably

25 October 2025 9:00 am

Taking place every October in Regent’s Park, the Frieze fair is probably the biggest event in London’s art calendar. It…

Look at the paint!

19 September 2020 9:00 am

The hand is one of the first images to appear in art. There are handprints on the walls of caves…

One of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s Scots pines in the French Pavilion

More Marx than Dante

16 May 2015 9:00 am

Martin Gayford finds a few nice paintings amid the dead trees, old clothes and agitprop of the Venice Biennale

Peak practice

18 January 2014 9:00 am

William Cook visits the Kirchner Museum in Davos, the Alpine town where the German Expressionist found refuge and inspiration

Unmissable: ‘The Horse, the Rider and the Clown’, 1943–4, by Matisse will go on show at Tate Modern in April

A look ahead

11 January 2014 9:00 am

Andrew Lambirth reveals the treats on show in 2014