In the December diary, I am highlighting books and exhibitions exploring themes of national art – both British and Sudanese.

A long-lost painting by Peter Paul Rubens, hidden for 4 centuries, was sold for €2.94 million this week in Versailles. The ...

For Savina, art is not merely a practice but a process of translation, an intuitive channelling of inner states into visual ...

A number of exhibitions mark Sean Scully’s 80th birthday this year, including the just-opened Tapestry, at Kerlin Gallery in Dublin.

Lisson is presenting a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Tony Cragg. The exhibition brings together a selection of ...

CLOSE has taken Rock Paper Scissors as both title and provocation — a reminder that creativity often begins with nothing more ...

At the first UK exhibition dedicated solely to William Nicholson since 2004, one witnesses his range, incredible artistic ...

Pam Hogg, the Scottish designer, artist, musician and renegade spirit who spent four decades blowing holes in the polite ...

Barbra Streisand, never short on candour, has admitted she still winces at one particular decision from her early collecting ...

To celebrate the 250th anniversaries of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner's births, Tate Britain presents these two titans of ...

The Cultural Policy Unit (CPU), a think tank that's been quietly pushing for the notion for years, can finally see light at ...

For months, rumours have trickled out of Somerset House suggesting the Courtauld was gearing up for something big—bigger than ...