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It was Saturday morning and my two twentysomething daughters had just announced that they were (rather shockingly) available for me to buy them lunch. Lucky me. I felt honoured. While I have learned not to be quite so enthusiastic when they suggest going shopping together (my accountant has actually banned…

Explore the iconic Garden Lodge in London, once owned by Freddie Mercury, now up for sale after nearly 50 years. Discover its opulent history and the memor...

In his first ever interview, the artist talks about a life spent making dazzling pictures, why he’s not bitter about being undiscovered, and why his art school ‘didn’t get’ Matisse

The Met is hosting the first major look at the work of Black artists during the era since 1987, making the link between their work and European modernism

Bring the outside in with blooming beautiful artwork

Their work dazzled the world – but was obliterated from history. As the giant art fair Frieze opens in London, we explore its historic new section aiming to write women back into the story of art

The Guardian’s art critic examines the collection amassed by the oligarch and his ex-wife Dasha Zhukova, which includes Freuds, Picassos and Russian modernism

The internet sensation scammed her way into the British academic institution — then built a career as an ‘It girl’ off her life there. With the publication of her searing new memoir, she tells Alexandra Jones why she’s leaving all artifice behind

When she walked out on Picasso, he destroyed her art and waged war on her career – while France cast her out. Now that this great painter has died, says the woman writing her biography, it is time for this shameful treatment to cease

The Welsh-born painter Gwen John is generally remembered as a “fragile”, isolated figure, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Neglected for some time after her death, John (1876-1939) was rediscovered in the 1980s, when she was reassessed as a reclusive talent overshadowed by two “bombastic male egos”: her brother, the…

Over the years, female artists like Georgia O’Keeffe and Hilma af Klint have received scathing reviews. When will women stop being seen as easy targets?