The New York Historical explores the city’s early modern roots with a lively display of paintings of daily life
The sculptor’s beguiling creatures, which range from the humanoid to the insectoid, take up residence at Houghton Hall in Norfolk
Plus: the European Commission has told the Venice Biennale to stop Russia taking part or risk losing €2m in funding
Scott, who has led the museum since 2017, talks to Apollo about her favourite works from the collection and how to get new audiences into Old Masters
This wide-ranging survey of the artist’s work also explores the harmonies between her paintings and those of Edvard Munch
Gainsborough’s House presents work by three pioneers of British landscape painting – including at least one masterpiece not seen in public since the 18th century
See how this one-woman institution brought the avant-garde across the Channel and transformed British art in the process
Forty paintings from a a series charting the adventures of the Hindu deity Rama are reunited at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Plus: Greece has passed a law to combat crimes against cultural property, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has sold the artist’s former home to a Florida resort
Very few works on paper from the Low Countries before 1600 have survived – which makes this exhibition at the British Museum a top-drawer show
