The French artist has stalked people, posed as a hotel maid to get into rooms, and filmed her mother’s last breath. Has she any regrets? Non! As a major UK show opens, she recalls her career highs

For the first instalment of Young at art – a new series on the delights and dangers of introducing small children to art – Chloë Ashby weighs up whether it’s worth the effort

She left London because her paintings felt hopelessly unfashionable compared with the work of the YBAs. Now she’s back with a blockbuster show – and the world has come round to her point of view

His work was so painstaking and slow to produce that the models – including a certain trainee barrister – often didn’t make it to the end of a portrait. It makes for paintings that seem drained of lif...

Opening 150 years after her birth, this exhibition honours a diligent and rigorous artist who found beauty in ‘drabness’

The great French artist,who lived to 98, is celebrated in Knife-Woman, Marie-Laure Bernadac’s deeply personal biography

The two artists talk about their 25-year friendship, a severed finger and why they’re the opposite of ‘two little Bo Peeps’

The Royal Academy’s exhibition devoted to Mrinalini Mukherjee and her contemporaries is beautiful but unfocused

Chris Ofili loves steel pans. Lindsey Mendick adores Self Esteem. And Ragnar Kjartansson enjoys everything from Bach to the Cure. Artists reveal the bangers that get their creative juices fizzing

She learnt from the artists who flocked to her parents’ hotel in Skagen, was denied the training her male peers received and forged her own path as a painter of radiant interiors

As a gallerist, she represented painters like Jackson Pollock – but her own work, which she did at weekends, is deliciously bold and breezy

The US photographer, whose images of her naked children sparked controversy, reflects on her life and practice

He taught Leonora Carrington and founded an art movement with Le Corbusier, so why is Amédée Ozenfant forgotten? In this history, Charles Darwent sets out to rescue him from obscurity

Marie Antoinette, Darwin, Freud … and Norman ‘Psycho’ Bates all did it. In A Noble Madness, James Delbourgo charts the changing image of the collector from antiquity to the present

The sibling portrait artists have been re-evaluated since their deaths, says Judith Mackrell in her double biography Artists, Siblings, Visionaries. So who was the greater talent?

The married sculptors made very different art – hers curvy and colourful, his rickety and angular – but it all hums with life when brought together

From intimate panels to breathtakingly cinematic canvases, Caroline Walker explains how she set out to capture the many sides of motherhood, right down to the first nappy change

It is remarkable the web Katie Kitamura can spin around a scene as simple as a woman joining a man for lunch. His name is Xavier. We don’t know her name, but we do know she’s a successful actress. He’...

The Korean artist brings model houses, domestic fixtures and fittings and brightly coloured passageways to Tate Modern in a playful and haunting show

Throughout her quietly compelling second novel, Elegy, Southwest, Madeleine Watts conjures a sense of trundling steadily towards disaster. The narrator, a young Australian woman called Eloise, is reco...

The Ghanaian’s dazzling work has been blasted into space and inspired a Dior collection. But, ahead of a new show, the ‘future of portraiture’ reveals how he originally wanted to be a tennis player

On the first page of Colum McCann’s compelling novel Twist we meet the two leads: John A. Conway, who has disappeared, and Anthony Fennell, who’s trying to tell his story. They first met when Fennell,...

Tuesday 25th March, doors 630pm for 7pm start For their first event at Bàrd Books, Feminist Book Society brings together two exemplary writers whose exceptional novels examine the pursuit of an art…

Sue Roe’s Hidden Portraits tells the remarkable stories of the six leading women in the artist’s life — and his poor treatment of them

Ella Harold, editor at Fig Tree, has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Family Friends, the third novel by writer and journalist Chloë Ashby, from Emma Finn at C&W. Fig Tree will publish the novel...

London, June 1877. Beneath a cloudy sky, the celebrated art critic John Ruskin strode along Bond Street towards the newly opened Grosvenor Gallery. Inside, he viewed a smash-hit show of beautiful and ...

From creamy white skirts to voluminous opera cloaks, velvet dresses and strings of pearls, Tate Britain’s dazzling look at how John Singer Sargent was part-painter, part-stylist is a feast for the eye...

American artist Barbara Kruger combines the arresting techniques of advertising with words of protest. As her first London solo show for 20 years opens at the Serpentine Gallery, Chloe Ashby explores ...

The oldest of 14 children, Shuvinai Ashoona takes inspiration from Inuit mythology and the wildlife of her ice-scape home. As her show comes to Britain, the artist looks back

As a child she splashed around in Frida Kahlo’s bathtub, in a house that still smelt of the artist’s oil paints. At 16, she partied with Madonna and Basquiat in New York, living off ‘coffee, cok...

The narrator of Cathy Sweeney’s first novel has finally cracked. I say ‘finally’ because there have been signs: drinking alone; disliking her daughter, or at least her type; having an affair wit...

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Christine Coulson worked for more than 25 years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where she wrote hundreds of wall labels. In One Woman Show, her second novel, she tells the tragicomic li...