Culture

Milk, pity and power

Since antiquity, artists have depicted a perverse scene of a daughter breastfeeding her aged father. What does it mean?

Margie Orford

The key to a vampire’s immortality? Meeting the anxieties of the moment

15 minutes

The female Abstract Expressionists of New York shook the world of art

15 minutes

At 95, an artist paints swiftly to capture the fugitive light

6 minutes

Edward Hopper came of age with cinema. As an artist, he left a lasting mark on it

12 minutes

The revolutionary artist who propelled the Black Panther movement with imagery

8 minutes

Can art in a swanky restaurant ever be transcendent? On Rothko’s Seagram Murals

15 minutes

What does an AI make of what it sees in a contemporary art museum?

15 minutes

‘Long Live Degenerate Art’ – how a Surrealist group in Cairo defied repression in 1938

4 minutes

A massive art installation attempts to put the COVID-19 deaths in perspective

15 minutes

Dizzying discs and obscene wordplay – revisiting Marcel Duchamp’s 1926 film debut

7 minutes

Her body is a problem

When 1970s women artists put the female body under the female gaze, why did the critics see only obscene monsters?

Lauren Elkin

Is paying with hand-drawn banknotes artistry or forgery? The knotty case of J S G Boggs

10 minutes

Grotesque imagery meets religious conservatism in Hieronymus Bosch’s art

51 minutes

A mindbending trip that summons the forgotten women of surrealism

17 minutes

From archaeology digs to display cabinets: how museums bring exhibits to life

37 minutes

An artistic collaboration across centuries brings a 1432 battle scene to arresting life

2 minutes