Artists and scientists have been equally committed observers of nature, as this exhibition at the National Gallery of Art makes clear
If you’ve ever wanted to curate your own museum, pretend to be a Medici patron or infiltrate the Louvre, these are the games for you
Plus: Sotheby’s has returned gems linked to the Buddha to India; and the artist, playwright and theatre director Robert Wilson has died at the age of 83
These 30 vivid watercolours at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. capture the grandeur and variety of the American landscape
The Ashmolean presents the fruits of the 30-year collaboration between the artist and the Radiohead singer
Cats have left their mark – sometimes literally – on manuscripts from all over the world, as this show at the Walters Art Museum reveals
Revered by the Impressionists, this master of light and atmosphere gets a survey at the National Gallery in London
By constantly reworking her carefully chosen surfaces, the Azerbaijani artist captures something very real about the workings of personal and cultural memory
Plus: Amy Sherald cancels show at Smithsonian and the US withdraws from UNESCO again
Photographs and colonial documents are overlaid with Aboriginal dot paintings at Whitby Museum in Yorkshire
