Art

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012 has been awarded to Spanish Londoner Jordi Ruiz Cirera for a photograph of a camera-shy Bolivian woman.

Gaby Wood explores some of the images included in the Taylor Wessing portrait photography prize exhibition.

Richard Dorment finds that John Sell Cotman’s touch is finicky, his attention to descriptive and detail over-precise.

Alastair Sooke reviews two exhibitions of images taken of the wilderness and city life by Ansel Adams and Cartier-Bresson.

In pictures: Images by photographic pioneer Ansel Adams, who is the subject of a new show at the National Maritime museum in Greenwich.

Rupert Christiansen advises everyone to take any excuse to visit the Barber Institute in Edgbaston.

As an exhibition of his early work opens, the great British artist describes what some of his paintings mean to him.

What makes a portrait of a woman unforgettable? We asked eight leading female photographers to identify their favourite.

Artworks at publicly owned museums, including those by Damien Hirst and have been damaged in a catalogue of slap-stick mishaps.

Leading figures from arts world write to The Telegraph to warn that creative subjects are under threat.

John Sell Cotman, a largely forgotten peer of Turner's, painted a series of profoundly moving watercolours of France after the Napoleonic wars.

Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and 200 years of Australian art are among the highlights of the new programme at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Royal sheikh compared to an “inveterate gambler” who cannot stop bidding for works of art.

A round up of new gallery and museum exhibitions and theatre plays opening in London this November.

As the Sistine Chapel celebrates its 500th anniversary, the Vatican says it may have to limit the huge numbers of visitors because pollution is damaging Michelangelo's frescoes, one of the artistic wonders of the world.

Inside the artist's Dinos Chapman unique home - a converted 500,000-gallon concrete water tank.

Milan's charms may not be immediate, but once discovered they're greater than those found in Rome, Florence or Venice. Giovanna Bertazzoni shares her insider guide to the city's hidden attractions.

Janice Blackburn spends leisurely weekends in London, taking in the culture, shopping and kippers the capital has to offer.

A 29 inch sculpture of the goddess Isis was sold for £3.7 million last week, writes Colin Gleadell.

The Weiss Gallery has taken down its Tudor and Stuart portraits this week and replaced them with an assortment of ancient Himalayan works of art, writes Colin Gleadell.