Art

The grid: Welcome to Fliffmellington

When artist Paolo Puck had to leave his home, he dreamt up a world of his own

The dark, wayward works of the Two Roberts

The inseparable Scottish artists and lovers are celebrated in a landmark English show at Charleston

Fear and loathing at Frieze

This year’s London art fair was a spectacle insulated from the world outside the tent

The artists reshaping how we view Nigeria

Tate Modern’s timely exhibition brings together the pioneers of a diasporic movement

Arthur Jafa is a sound-and-vision genius

The multimedia artist creates hypnotic, cinematic forms of homage to music greats from Pete Townshend to Prince

Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring finally gets a name

A radical new theory about the life and beliefs of the Dutch master

Art market slump paints a complicated picture

Top collectors are waiting it out while galleries cope with a market course correction

Gilbert & George’s 21st Century Pictures – eye-popping but empty

Vast, lurid yet increasingly timid, the pair’s art is in your face but never reaches heart and head. Plus, a captivating show of Scandinavian graphic works

Peter Doig: ‘I’ve never felt the need to cash in on my success’

His paintings have fetched the highest prices for a living artist. But as Doig explains, his new show at London’s Serpentine Gallery is more about the music

America’s ‘laureate of lunch counters’

Wayne Thiebaud’s vibrant paintings capture the romance of a bygone age. The first solo exhibition in Britain of his art opens this week

The making of Lee Miller

The American photographer’s response to war and its aftermath stun at Tate Britain

The grid: Roberto Benavidez’s playful piñatas

The LA-based artist gives Bosch’s menacing menagerie a papier-mache makeover

The grid: Edie Medley’s pub-patter pictures

Two pints of lager, a packet of crisps and a nugget of wisdom – the sketches inspired by nights in the pub

Not the end of the Turner Prize, just the end of the world

The 2025 exhibition, which comes amid global crisis, has an urgency greater than the sum of its parts

Jean Rhys and the art of not belonging

A new exhibition attempts to bring to life the mysterious novelist through works in conversation with her books

Gilbert and George: ‘No artist of our generation did what we did’

Impolite, outlandish and determinedly eccentric, the art world’s ‘inside-outers’ have spent 60 years dividing opinion. They share their collective wisdom on love, politics and mortality

Tate Modern’s Theatre Picasso – contrived, confused, uncalled for

This exhibition is concerned with presentation, but artworks are mounted on mesh grids like posters at Ikea

Face to face with the pharaohs’ tomb artists

The painters and stonemasons of ancient Egypt have been erased from history, but a new exhibition brings them fully to life