The director of the National Portrait Gallery will take up his post at the troubled museum in the summer
Plus: Denver Art Museum returns 11 more artefacts to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam and some Damien Hirst sculptures may be more recently made than they seem
The Polish artist’s paintings inspired by famous works and made for an upcoming film get star billing at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam
The William Morris Gallery in London is a fitting host for works by Japanese makers inspired by the Art and Crafts movement
Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens are known primarily for their virtuosic large-scale paintings, but both were also highly skilled draughtsman
The Musée d’Orsay demonstrates how far the work of Monet, Morisot, Renoir and co. has come since the art establishment shunned it 150 years ago
As Hindu communities around the world celebrate Holi, we look at four artworks that depict this vibrantly colourful festival
Koen Bulckens of the Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp explains what makes the painter’s portrait of ‘the weeping prophet’ such an emotional tour de force
The Ugandan-born artist treats her sculpture studio as a strict place of work – except for the occasional glass of Japanese whisky
The French artist wrestles with the limits of reality in Venice, a city famous for masks and disguises
