Painting
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British buyer sought for 17th-century work Garden of Eden With the Fall of Man, judged to be of outstanding aesthetic importance
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From Bruegel to Botticelli, Laura Cumming chooses her favourite depictions of the Christmas story
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Jonathan Jones on art Mr Turner’s record year should blaze a trail for British painting’s other greats
The avalanche of interest in JMW Turner is welcome – but he was not the only artist to give colour to the 18th and 19th centuries. Let’s give some others a chance
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New South Wales supreme court judge says auction house was told of concerns after painting sold for $75,000 yet it said nothing to buyer Louise McBride
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Rome, From Mount Aventine was one of the last great works in private hands and remains in exceptional condition
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They were separated by a century, but the pop-art pioneer and the crafts-loving traditionalist had surprisingly similar views. Can you tell them apart?
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A total lack of integrity distinguishes Hambling’s latest collection of daft daubs
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A new exhibition in Rome charts the enduring artistic life of Iran over the turbulence of its past fifty years.
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Queensland artist survived prisoner of war camp, near drowning and arrest to become one of Australian art’s most influential figures, writes Fiona Gruber
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David Hockney is as engaging as ever in Randall Wright’s affectionate film, writes Mark Kermode
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From Howard Hodgkin in London to William Blake in Oxford, find out what’s happening in art around the country
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From the hi-tech iPad art to the paintings of shimmering swimming pools, this film portrait is an amiable celebration of David Hockney, but it never goes quite deep enough, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Letters: A conspiracy of silence seems to grip the media when grappling with the idea that those who don’t vote are apolitical/apathetic
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Five exhibitions in Athens alone to honour the Crete-born painter Doménikos Theotokópoulos who lived in Spain
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A study of the talent behind the kitsch 60s images of big-eyed waifs wants to be an oil painting but ends up more like a mass-produced print
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Jonathan Jones: This new collaboration is proof that video games hark back to an artistic age obsessed with realism and perspective – the Renaissance
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Four traditional healers living and working in the Dharavi district of Mumbai are the subject of a series of portraits capturing them at their place of business
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From the Guardian archive From the archive, 25 November 2000: Painter and peace activist Tom Kinsey dies
Originally published in the Guardian on 25 November 2000: An artist who cast an impish eye on life from the counter-culture -
Kunstmuseum Bern chief emphasises bequest from Cornelius Gurlitt excludes works suspected of having been looted
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Jonathan Jones: Hated by the Nazis for their freedom and humanity, the paintings are neither poisoned gifts nor spoils of war but vital works of art
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Elizabeth Wilson: Some may lament the passing of bohemianism but really it is a state of mind that is still alive
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The artist speaks about her latest paintings inspired by waves at Southwold, as well as a work she produced in response to the death of Amy Winehouse
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From Gavin Turk’s light sculptures in Salisbury to Mark Nevile’s documentary photography in London, find out what’s happening in art around the country
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Final bid for Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1 more than doubles the previous highest price paid for a work of art by a woman
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Jonathan Jones: More and more our experience at exhibitions is prescribed, as if we won’t understand unless we look for a set time. That kind of art should be banned from galleries
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1813 work, believed to be a portrait of foreign secretary’s daughter, acquired with funds from art teacher’s bequest
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Letters: We place a much higher value on things that are rare or unique, provided they speak to us in some significant way
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London exhibition focusing on mass digital culture will feature works from artists including Wu Tsang and Juliette Bonneviot
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Last year David Hockney moved from Yorkshire to LA. It has rejuvenated him, he tells Tim Lewis, before answering questions from Observer readers and leading cultural figures
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How did British artists respond to the war that so famously inspired Picasso? This exemplary show reveals all, writes Laura Cumming
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From Michael Williams’s psychedelic canvasses in London to Christopher Orr’s first solo show in Scotland, find out what’s happening in art around the country
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Carr longed only to paint the rainforests and wild skies of her native British Columbia – and, like Kahlo, she captured the indigenous traditions of her homeland. Ahead of her first major European show, 70 years after her death, we celebrate Canada’s first true modernist
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Romans, Nazis, Victorian-era Brits, noughties cat-burglars – they have all stolen priceless works. Here are the most shocking art thefts of the last two millennia, writes Ivan Lindsay
The moral philosopher Is the Gurlitt collection so precious we forget its dubious heritage?