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From Renaissance art to couture and celebrity interruptions

Paris fashion week sees Chloé creative director balancing sustainability and fashion

Have you heard of Surrealist photographer Lee Miller? Or the highly political Dada photo-montagist Hannah Höch? 19th-century sculptor Edmonia Lewis achieved fame and recognition in her lifetime, as did 20th-century sculptor Barbara Hepworth, but none of these women artists have achieved “household name” status, akin to Dali or Duchamp or…

The Barbican’s boldly curated exhibiton of abstract expressionist Lee Krasner (1908-1984) – who was routinely referred to as Jackson Pollock’s wife, despite being a well-established artist long before meeting him – transferred to the Guggenheim Bilbao in 2018. Before it opened, a Spanish newspaper invited me to introduce this “little…

Now in his 80s but as fiery as ever, the German provocateur talks about his pride at being a ‘degenerate’ artist, painting his wife nude – and revisits his assertion that: ‘Women don’t paint very well’

This technically perfect and thrillingly flamboyant re-enactment of the extraordinary artist’s life is a great way to discover the pain and triumph of her often savage work

Explore the excesses of Colombian carnaval, get real with Artemisia Gentileschi, see the unseen with Frank Auerbach and learn how a pipe not being a pipe still influences design today – all in your weekly dispatch

Italy's art squad police say they have thwarted the potential illegal sale by a Vienna auction house of a 17th-century painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, a celebrated Baroque artist