The British artist won the top award that eluded Bacon, Hockney and Freud.

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Tate Britain is transformed into a carnival but look twice, it is not so celebratory

Meticulously tidy or a horrible mess? To really know an artist, just look at their studio

John Richardson’s latest work reveals that the darker the artist’s personal life, the greater was his genius

Too gothic to be a Renaissance master, this artist was wrongly overlooked — no longer thanks to this show at the Ikon gallery

The artist’s Normandy studio is a respite from the world. Over lunch and cigarettes he talks about his new exhibition and looking like ‘a lesbian novelist’

I have no concrete idea how I ended up in Ukraine last week seeing how the nation’s art and treasures are being saved from Russian bombs. All gods move in mysterious ways, but the gods of art are especially fickle. It started a fortnight ago with a meeting in London of ten of Poland’s most […]

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