Designed in the 18th century by Luigi Vanvitelli for Charles VII of Naples, Italy’s answer to Versailles is as dizzying today as it was 250 years ago
While other events are contracting, this New York mainstay remains a force to be reckoned with
Ancient vessels are still highly prized around the world, but Chinese buyers are the most committed collectors today
As Trump 2.0 makes its presence felt, the art market is feeling nervous about new trade barriers – and reluctant to talk about the subject in public
The art world tends to favour self-promoting extroverts, but it is often the eccentrics and wallflowers who make the most interesting work
Art can never bring anything back to life, but it can help what has been lost live on in the imagination
A meditative painting by Qi Baishi demonstrates his modern approach to an ancient art form, explains Jeremy Zhang of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
The Flemish castle bought by Rubens in 1635 was intended as a country retreat, and it inspired the artist’s greatest landscapes
Working in the new medium of pastels, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour portrayed the elites of his day in a style to suit the hedonism of the age
Picasso was the possessor of a hearty appetite and depictions of alcohol and excess are also central to his work
Recent rehangs at the Met and the Brooklyn Museum suggest that part of the answer lies in respecting the viewer’s own capacity for interpretation
Helen Gordon charts the fall and cultural rise of the Ensisheim meteorite of 1492
A textural triumph and a sensual delight, this distinctly '80s ice cream is as pleasing to look at as it is to consume
Two restored masterpieces – one vast in scale, the other intimate – are being shown together for the first time to give us fresh insights into ‘the first light of Renaissance painting’
Choudhary’s array of Mughal-era jewellery and artefacts is intertwined with the history of Jaipur – and helps inspire his own contemporary designs
Technology and ornament went hand in hand at the court of Louis XIV, and his successors expected the same from the scientific advances of their day
The artist painted the Wertheimers 12 times, in portraits that shed light on the changing fortunes of an extraordinary family
Whether Orphism can be called a coherent movement is one thing, but its practitioners produced some excellent art
The British Library’s exhibition of women in the Middle Ages who were creative and intellectual pioneers is a red-carpet affair
The Disney star was a marvel of 20th-century industrial production and the Second World War was his finest hour, writes Todd McEwen