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When Bernard Berenson learned that Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa had been stolen from the Louvre Gallery in Paris, the art critic heaved an enormous sigh of relief. Finally, he reflected, he could remove himself once and all from the dangerous influence of the work. “She had simply become an…

The designer, artist and creative director discusses her work with the Pentawards and the value of celebrating small wins.

An exhibition of works by the 19th-century artist shows his role in creating a sense of Mexican identity – revealing that he was more polymath than painter

Exclusive: How one historian’s investigative work led to artwork finally being returned to ‘English Versailles’

He has been tarred as a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas. But, writes the author of an acclaimed new book, fresh discoveries challenge this view of the artist – and even show him as a hero

Virtuosic digital artistry is on show in Serwah Attafuah’s installation The Darkness Between the Stars, currently showing at ACMI.

Banksy opens the interview saying: ‘Hello Tox. Are you allowed to carry pens on a bus yet?’

Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado's 40-year career, over the course of which he has travelled to more than 130 countries, is being celebrated with an exhibition in Deauville, Normandy.

A new exhibition and documentary celebrate the women who have been undervalued for years

Planning application reignites row over statue on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile of Elsie Inglis, Scottish suffragist and maternal health pioneer

Ballarat’s art gallery has closed for a year and Bendigo’s is set to shut for two years, both for necessary upgrades. But what will happen to the cities’ cultural life in the meantime?