Florence Hallett

Three institutions are collaborating to mark the centenary of the movement’s only female artist

The author’s 250th anniversary is the perfect time to celebrate the Regency era’s elegant design cues, writes Florence Hallett Worcestershire, England | United Kingdom Sotheby’s International Realty “To sit in idleness over a good fire in a well-proportioned room is a luxurious sensation,” Jane Austen once wrote to her sister, perfectly encapsulating the combination of…

“A new show at the Wellcome Collection celebrates the painter whose mental illness was inseparable from her art

Florence Hallett: Dwelling on Significance - Totem: The Untold Story of Sculpture by Jo Baring

If you like the French Impressionist, the implication is you probably don’t know any better

Artist Engineering Hardware is a new system that aims to reduce damage during transport and installation by eliminating direct contact with works of art

The Musée Jacquemart-André will show works by the Venetian master, who was revered by artists including Fragonard, Cézanne and Delacroix

The 950-year-old artwork has been the subject of Napoleonic fervour, Nazi plots and even a Guinness advert. Now it is in the UK for the first time since it was made

The larger-than-life gallery founder combined razor-sharp instinct and a passion for the new, writes Florence Hallett Vasily Kandinsky’s painting “Dominant Curve (Courbe dominante)” (1936) in “Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector.” Photograph: © Peggy Guggenheim Collection / Matteo De Fina “Little did I dream of the thousands of dollars I was about…

Silent as a child, she was feted by Warhol and the press before vanishing at the height of her fame

For the current edition of the Venice Biennale, the Bulgarian Pavilion serves as the headquarters of The Federation of Minor Practices, a shady, imaginary research organisation operating at some point in the near future, when society as we know it has ceased to exist.

Other lives: Textile designer and artist whose style was neither fully abstract nor entirely representational

The textile designer's bold, innovative fabrics helped give the Underground its distinctive identity – and influenced its look for years to come

Made from shells in northern Australia and taken to Manchester, they’re now on show in Venice

The artist was hired to design a series of wine labels – and delivered dark visions of alcoholism

Committed to Bethlem hospital after killing his father in a psychotic episode, Dadd inspired Angela Carter and Queen. Now a new show is exploring his paintings with a more nuanced take on his mental illness

Can books still change the world? At the Venice Biennale, the Irish artist contrasts Renaissance dreams with our current crisis

For all his masterpieces like A Bigger Splash, his greatest work may be teaching us to regard the everyday as a miracle

The artist, who won a medal in the 2025 Art Basel Awards, discusses the work she has created for the Messeplatz, and why she wants it to have an “afterlife” after the fair

Museum that honours the famous kinetic artist Jean Tinguely turns its attention to the often undervalued role of women in the workplace, through a show of films, paintings and other pieces by 36 artists