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The Turner prize is the world’s most prestigious award for contemporary art. Named after the renowned British painter J.M.W. Turner, the prize used to be a huge media affair. After it relaunched in 1991, it had a full live feature on Channel 4 (back in the day when most people…

The pioneering Turner prize winner on being ignored for years, representing the UK at next year’s Venice Biennale, and the joys of Preston

As the National Gallery in London turns 200, we ask celebrated artists to pick the artwork from the collection that means most to them

The latest institution to confront its colonial past, the RA does so to enthralling effect, using the art and its subjects – spanning 250 years, from Turner to Lubaina Himid – rather than the wall texts to shock and enlighten

From a pregnant woman tossed from a slave ship to reworkings of Titian and Da Vinci featuring black faces, this show aims to redress the RA’s biased version of art history – but it could all have been more daring

The Turner prize-winner reconstructs the literal threads of colonial history, and a collaborative exhibition extends over 23 spaces across the capital – all in your weekly dispatch

The Turner prize-winner has filled a museum with billowing reams of fabric – to reveal the shameful pasts of the gentry immortalised in its paintings. As the rebellious artist nears 70, she lets rip at what held her back

She once struggled for recognition. But now – with a floral tube map, a top award and a Heathrow underground commission involving asylum seekers – the British-Jamaican artist is finally getting her dues

At the outset of 2024, take inspiration from the women who pioneered collage, invented a new language or returned to their greatest passion, all in later life