With its scene buoyed by the Dhaka Art Summit, artists and architects are banging the drum for Bangladeshi art.

A group of Austrian philanthropists are working to shine a spotlight on their country’s artists.

The Hayward Gallery’s revamp has breathed a ray of sunlight into a Brutalist classic.

From rarities of the Flemish Renaissance to a resurgent New York market, we mark your diary with the key things to buy and see.

There’s still lots of money to be made in the Hong Kong art market. And the big players are coming to town.

Artist Matthew Day Jackson’s work is influenced by everything from terrorism to the space race. Following a period of intense creative activity Jackson’s new still-life work has come to focus on empires, tackling issues…

In this CGI era when craft means corralling pixels, we take a trip to a traditional animation studio in Tokyo to marvel at mastering the miniature. Among the models and drying paint we find that old-fashioned artworking is…

Digital archives are no replacement for the real thing – it’s only in a private visit to a secret hoard that history, humanity and passion are let loose to inspire, inform and entertain again.

Robert Bound reporting from Abu Dhabi: Now that the celebratory bunting has been taken down and the much-hyped Louvre Abu Dhabi is finally open for business, what does the future hold? Is it an oasis of culture in a desert…

On Saudi Arabia’s fledgling cultural scene, artists tread a precarious path to put the kingdom on the international art map. While inspiration and invention flourish behind closed doors, the spectres of censorship and…

Part-sermon, part-rock gig, a new breed of church service is spreading God’s word – and boosting record sales.

Turner Prize-nominated artist Gary Hume – lauded by the art world and a wider audience alike – is known for his vibrant high-gloss creations.

We visit the Beijing studio of Zeng Fanzhi, the Chinese artist who usually prefers to let his work do the talking. Fortunately he was willing to have a conversation with Monocle, in which we cover changing styles, perpetual…