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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 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?

I’ve sculpted figures from Mary Seacole to George Orwell, but a 9.6m-strong test run of my latest image is art on a whole new scale, says sculptor Martin Jennings

His wobbly blocks of high-key colours, painted while listening to Miles Davis, have made Whitney America’s greatest Black abstract artist. As a new show opens in the UK, he relives his tough early days

Ai Weiwei recreates a masterpiece in 650,000 pieces, Picasso and Matisse as arty midwives and dog portraits you won’t find in a charity shop – all in your weekly dispatch