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Russian-British historian Sergey Radchenko talks to Al Jazeera about Moscow’s desire for status on the world stage.

Françoise Gilot is the most compelling figure in this biography of the painter’s lovers – but you get the feeling she would have loathed this book

Protests against the dumping of Australia's art team for the Venice Biennale continue, with hundreds of artists and curators demanding government action.

Editorial: A £2bn new arena for Britain’s biggest football club will bring regeneration to the surrounding area. But matchgoing supporters are right to be circumspect

Turner prize nominee Delaine Le Bas says entrenched racist attitudes to community persist in UK and Europe

The Musée d’Orsay is partnering with 12 museums around France in a project that uses impressionist art to highlight climate change – works that collectively tell the story of human enterprise at the end of the 19th century, and the role artists of the time played in unintentionally documenting the…

Thomas Cromwell dies as he has not lived, reflecting on sins that tarnish his soul

It has hosted a huge spider and a pickled shark – and despite financial pressures, there can be little doubt about the gallery’s seismic impact

A 9,500-euro chair made with the same historic Irish slate used in Westminster Abbey will be among the main attractions at a new art event in Dublin.

Words and ideas are as one – and at war – in Finlay’s witty, elegant work, from sculptures to screenprints, ideally displayed in this intimate centenary show

Historian Dr Tiffany Jenkins is one of the lineup of new appointees that has raised cultural and historical hackles