Art

Pupils starved of art lose their creative spark

You can’t buy a crayon with the amount spent on arts materials in some schools

Art, raves and four-minute warnings: 24 hours in Kyiv

How the city’s young are clinging to normality while war rages on

Gabriele Finaldi, the National Gallery’s ambitious director

A gifted fundraiser, he has attracted £375m in donations and expanded the museum’s remit to contemporary art

A brush with the ‘world’s best art forger’

David Henty sells copies of masterworks to financiers, footballers and gangsters. Is it art or opportunism?

Underneath the arches: lessons in design at an old Victorian school

A historic Victorian schoolhouse is now the dramatic home of a fine sculptor

The artists who fought the Nazis

Comrades in Art tells the story of the Artists International Association: a group of British creatives who came together in the 1930s to wage war on the fascist right

Musée d’Orsay director who achieved his life’s dream

The head of the Paris gallery, who has died aged 58, ‘wanted everyone to be able to access the marvels of art’

‘The Naked Ape was a rebellious work’

The zoologist and author, 97, reveals how he has never lost his curiosity about the natural world, the loss of his life partner and how he became a surrealist painter

Frank Bowling at 91: ‘I’m still a teenager inside’

The veteran painter is gearing up for the first exhibition of his work on the continent of his birth. He discusses his days in the studio – and nights in the pub

The grid: Rong Bao’s otherworldly sculptures

The Chinese artist’s otherworldly inflatable sculptures provide close encounters of the surrealist kind

A historic home in Sweden turned creative hub

For a couple of creative adventurers, Kåseholm fulfils a childhood dream

Lynn Barber: ‘People say, “You must give up smoking.” Give up pleasure? No!’

The peerless interviewer talks about her Penthouse days, swerving chemotherapy, making friends with great artists and not asking for permission

The art market: the perfect forum to wash filthy fortunes clean

The jailing of dealer Oghenochuko Ojiri chimes with the public’s perception of a world of hucksters. But it is our sense of beauty that is most damaged

Maurizio Cattelan: the art world’s enfant terrible

Bananas taped to walls, gold lavatories and suicidal squirrels – Maurizio Cattelan’s work intends to provoke, shock and amuse. But is it even art? Andrew Anthony leans in to the iconoclastic Italian

On my radar: Delaine Le Bas’s cultural highlights

The artist on feeling like a child at the theatre, her red felt boots and birthdays on the beach

‘Isn't that you, Ted?’: Finding the man in the Francis Bacon painting

Stephen Smith meets the man in the painting and helps to solve a 50-year art world mystery

Marie-Laure de Decker’s Vietnam war self-portrait

The French photographer cast an original eye on the violent conflicts she covered

Ancient India takes centre stage at British Museum

A new exhibition at the British Museum celebrating the shaping force of ancient India is long overdue