V&A, LondonLost children, poverty, imprisonment: 300 years of stories both personal and political are sewn into the quilts in this wonderful show
The soldier looks peaceful but alarmingly pale. He has a metal plate lodged in his head. They’ve patched him up at the military hospital and even given him something …

John Tunnard, Chichester
Amorphous shapes dance in dream-like landscapes of seemingly infinite regress in the canvases of British artist John Tunnard. From the 1930s to the 1970s, Tunnard fused surrealism with abstraction in paintings exploring inner worlds, the Cornish vistas that surrounded his home and even space travel. Melodically composed with …

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His new installation at Tate Britain sees him guiltily return a stolen stone to the Pyramid of Giza. It’s a gripping work of art
It’s unusual to see a new work of art about conscience. I mean individual conscience, not some generalised idea of political guilt. …

‘It’s like blowing the dust off buried treasure!’ David Smith revels in his discovery of township artist Ephraim Ngatane
When I lived in London, I was a sucker for the blockbuster art exhibition. Caravaggio and the Terracotta Army lived up to the star billing. Others did not. But there was an …

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Now 63, the grande dame of 1970s performance art is spending three months in silent vigil at at New York’s Moma alongside a major new retrospective of her work. James Westcott sits down to see if he can hold her gaze
Last week, the 63-year-old queen …

From clashes of pop culture to doodles, sculpture to collage, the ambiguity of Hofer’s work frees us from history as it drags us in
It seems that anything goes in Andreas Hofer’s artistic universe. You’re as likely to encounter dinosaurs as comic-book heroes, Nazis, Sigmund Freud, John Wayne, Veronica Lake or …

The stuckists have retaliated to a post in which I called them enemies of art by naming their new show after it. Um, thanks
It’s lovely to see your own portrait in an exhibition – especially when it has been painted by Raphael. The Renaissance master is no slouch when it …

Jules George, 41, has just returned from being embedded with British troops in Afghanistan
The simple objective for a war artist is to record a particular war. You could ask why film and photography is not enough. I think that due to the very nature of painting or drawing, one can …

The V&A’s new quilts show is already causing a stir, with international enthusiasts block-booking hotels in west London. Viv Groskop finds out what all the fuss is about
As you step through the heavy wooden doors into the V&A’s new quilts exhibition, the first thing you see is a four-poster bed, draped with …

Landscape and portrait artist often described as the father of Jamaican painting

Albert Huie, who has died aged 89, was often described as the father of Jamaican painting. Although he produced folkloric genre pieces, his main concern was with his island’s rich landscape and the physical beauty of its people.
His appreciation …