Art

Barry Turner delves into an illuminating and entertaining insight into Bohemian life in the fast lane

Michael Prodger recounts the tale of Hergé’s drawing for the cover of the Tintin instalment: The Blue Lotus

John Springs on illustrating US Presidents throughout his career

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