Plus: Long-running dispute between Dmitry Rybolovlev and Yves Bouvier enters new phase and British geologist’s conviction for smuggling antiquities overturned
Downtime is important for the artist in downtown Los Angeles, who has a figurine from a children’s television show keep watch over their studio
Plus: Documenta director resigns in anti-Semitism row, Italian authorities stop Artemisia sale in Vienna and New York DA’s office returns 142 artefacts to Italy
The New York-based artist listens to experimental jazz and audiobooks about physics, and likes to keep her studio floor clean enough for bare feet
The painter begins his day by sneaking up on his paintings in an attempt to see them afresh and completes them at night when they’re looking their worst
The British sculptor keeps haunting relics of the colonial era in his London studio – and soothes himself with audiobooks while he works
This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette's breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
An insight into sculpture at this year’s fair, a rediscovered early copy of Austen’s ‘Emma’ and an Italian jeweller’s obsession with Etruria
An outstanding collection of some 900 Japanese cloisonné enamels is among this month’s highlights