Visual Art

Art history documentary maker Andrew Graham-Dixon talks contemporary art and BBC spending to Altair Brandon-Salmon

Lizzy Diggins is intrigued by the religious crossovers at the Ashmolean's new exhibition

Susie Finlay discovers the delights of still-life drama

Gazelle Mba discusses a groundbreaking feminist film and the politicisation of artistic identity

Sam Dalrymple reports on the phenomenon of truck art that is spreading across Pakistan

Altair Brandon-Salmon dives into the world of art auctions with Giovanna Bertazzonia, co-chair of Modern Art at Christie’s

Viveka Herzum challenges the role political cartoons play in our current climate

Excessive detail hinders an energetic and ground-breaking Basquiat exhibition, writes Eleanor Birdsall-Smith

The new exhibition at the V&A entertains yet bemuses Julia Alsop

Nicola Dwornik reviews a long overdue exhibition of Fahrelnissa Zeid's life and work

Jess Brown contemplates the merits and shortcomings of life drawing

Georgiana Wilson explores Grayson Perry's image, identity, and popularity after seeing his latest exhibition

Billie Esplen considers the relevance of Tate Britain's Queer Britain exhibition

Altair Brandon-Salmon is thrilled by the British Library's exhibition marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution

Chloe Dootson-Graube investigates the artistic importance of Microsoft Paint

Ellie Duncan is enchanted by the 'azulejos' of Portugal

Altair Brandon-Salmon explores the Royal Academy's latest exhibition, Matisse in the Studio

Altair Brandon-Salmon ponders the significance of the Royal Academy's annual Summer Exhibition

Becky Cook is awestruck by Hokusai’s ‘The Great Wave’ but says the artist fails to discover anything beyond the masterpiece at the British Museum’s current exhibition

Avery Curran discusses curating Text/ure, Trump, and artistic cataclysm in the US There’s an argument, and it’s a convincing one, that all art is political and, in the interim period between the election and the inauguration it felt truer than ever. There was an atmosphere of displacement and shifting ground. Between daily revelations about suspicious calls to Russia and plans to defund sanctuary cities (of which New York is one), no one seemed to know where they stood.