Is there bad art lurking in your home? Did you paint something at some point that does you no credit? Was that whimsical purchase at the car boot sale a misguided error? Sieze the day – dispose of your failed, hated, awful art works and help create something strange …

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) History Month, the Schools Out initiative to help fight homophobic bullying that had its pre-launch at the British Museum last November, is back this month for the 6th year. This means that throughout February, a varied selection of (mostly) free events (over 200 of …

The Foundling Museum, London WC1, until 9 May
The three artists chosen to collaborate at the Foundling Museum on the site of the original Foundling Hospital on London’s Coram’s Fields are, appropriately enough, a dysfunctional kind of family. Mat Collishaw and Tracey Emin and Paula Rego have history. Rego taught Emin …

How can London be the capital of global art when our celebrity culture makes it such a miserable place for artists to live and work?
Chris Ofili, whose art retrospective has just opened at Tate Britain, is just one of the British artists who have chosen to live abroad to get …

The exact spot from which John Constable painted The Stour Valley and Dedham village almost 200 years ago, one of his best loved scenes, has been traced by a researcher poring over old maps and modern hedges.
It is not just the horse drawn carts and the straw hatted agricultural labourers …

The economy is bad – tell me something I don’t already know.  As we looked to sell our home and set up professional staging, we realized that our home could really use a few interior design enhancements to our walls to make our home sell, at least as fast as …

Royal Academy, London W1
In the dazzling heat of Provence in July, Van Gogh drags his easel up an ankle-turning hill. He has nothing to drink but sour milk. But the toil is worthwhile, for below him is a beautiful sight: “An immense flat expanse,” he writes, “of vineyards, fields of …

Negotiable Values, Manchester
Manchester’s Chinese Arts Centre continues to highlight the speedy changes taking place in China – as well as increasing interchanges between Chinese and western artistic cultures – with an exhibition of works that question the concept of progress. Wang Jun’s installations hint at moments of social alienation; Zheng …

With their sly parodies of corporate branding and mass-produced design, Darbyshire’s installations expose the hollow realities behind urban regeneration
What does New Labour’s Britain look like? In the work of Matthew Darbyshire, the outgoing party’s legacy is revealed to be a world of shifting surfaces, all daubed in a CMYK palette …

Ive been to my watercolor paintings for decorating jobs. I’ve met some really nice pieces on eBay. I’ve recently bought a watercolor by an artist named Y. Gianni. The play was produced in 1890 and is an Italian village. It was very lively and pleasing to the eye.
I tried to …