Artists

It’s a strange time, McEwen reflects, to be an artist

The Met’s show is tribute to a fine artist of boundless talent

The artist’s unflinching vision of a world gone awry is as powerfully direct as his late-in-life compositions of compassion and hope

There is something truly pathological about the taboo given that Irish art is awash with politics

The artist’s path to success was long and arduous, paved with heartbreak and poverty

A Swiss Symbolist haunted by the beyond

‘People seek me out because I do things in a certain way’

In his imperfect, weird way, the artist was trying to understand something so deeply beautiful in itself, mere created beings cannot fully grasp it

Artist Alberto Guerrero’s career has been driven by a desire to look for what is behind everything that we perceive at present

Despite her institutional recognition in France, Richier is not as well-known outside her native country as she deserves to be

In many of their most enduring images, the Old Masters did not shy away from asking ‘Why?’ in the face of suffering and trauma

To mark the half-century since Picasso’s death, I invited two art experts to lunch at Els Quatre Gats

Cultural mavens shouldn’t miss out on a knockout exhibition curated by Emily King