Damien Hirst’s work encapsulates the sterility, isolation and obsession with death of these times, says Alys Denby

The Story of Scottish Art is not a scholarly work of art history; it gives an easy-to-read account of artists’ lives with a faintly awestruck tone

Whether we like it or not, the intrusion of AI into the domain of human creativity is going very quickly to become a fixture of our lives

At times Portrait of a Muse feels like a Julian Fellowes soap opera where we see this woman of extraordinary vivacity making great men go weak at the knees

Rex Whistler’s Tate mural should be seen more as an ironic Rococo fantasy than the work of a racist

Even the venerable and conservative Louvre is exploring various fundraising novelties, says Michael Prodger

Matthew Craske’s book challenges the prevailing idea of Joseph Wright as product and servant of rationalism and Enlightenment

‘Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life’ is Brigitte Benkemoun’s discovery of the provenance of the address book and what it told her about the owner’s life

Michael Prodger on the artists who make huge sums for painting the US flag

Why have our great cultural institutions been among the first to fall?