Steven Morris on National Portrait Gallery giving unknown portraits to writers to make up stories
Steven Morris

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A new exhibition at the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, explores the unique partnership of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert through their passion for arts

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The Institute of contemporary arts does what it says on the box better than any other public gallery I can think of at the moment. Its closure would be a terrible loss to creativity
This Thursday at the ICA in London’s Mall, artist and musician Billy Childish will be talking to …

Celebrated in London, New York and now in a major show in Paris, Lucian Freud is one of our greatest living painters. But will his work stand the test of time
In Lucian Freud’s painting Two Irishmen in W11, the bare floorboards of his studio support a white armchair in which he …

Storytellers invent life histories for unknown subjects in National Portrait Gallery vaults

For more than half a century they have lain in a storeroom, unidentified and unseen by the hundreds of thousands of visitors to the National Portrait Gallery every year. But new life is being breathed into a …

Dealer and collector with a passion for art nouveau and art deco
Victor Arwas, who has died of a heart attack aged 72, was a larger-than-life personality, even for the London art world. As a dealer and collector, his interests centred on the graphic and applied arts of the late …

The Treasures of the Aga Kahn Museum – Masterpieces of Islamic Art exhibition opens at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin on 17 March 2010

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Japanese film-maker and artist Takeshi Kitano has turned Paris’s prestigious Fondation Cartier into a brightly coloured children’s funfair

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Overanalysing art, as opposed to intuitively rating it, is fraught with peril
Some of you ask why reviewers (or this reviewer) are always just saying what’s good and what’s bad, what we like or don’t like. According to critics of the critic, this is typical of, well – typical of me. …

Best known for his violent arthouse films, Takeshi Kitano is also an accomplished comic, prankster and painter. It’s all fuel for his big new show in Paris, he tells Steve Rose
There’s plenty of evidence that artists can make decent movies – Steve McQueen, Sam Taylor Wood, Julian Schnabel to name …