Georgia’s most celebrated painter documented his nation’s customs and landscapes in a distinctive, naive style
How the Persian empire set the standard for luxury living in the ancient world
Garments and hand-drawn sketches trace the extraordinary career of the pioneering designer
The National Gallery considers how Franciscan teachings have inspired artists from the Renaissance to the present
The Bozar in Brussels shows that in Florence, the style was considerably more refined than in Rome
The film-maker’s lyrical explorations of race and cultural history go on show at Tate Britain
The Grolier Club serves up a feast of menus that tell us much about changing social mores
The Huntington presents a rare opportunity to view the oldest printed book in its collection
The Whitney puts on the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date
The Queen’s Gallery in London puts on a courtly fashion show
The photographer documented Jewish communities throughout Eastern Europe from the late 1920s to the start of Second World War
The Tate considers how both artists used abstract painting as a means of understanding the natural (and supernatural) world
More than 250 works at the Met testify to millennia-old concerns about death and the afterlife
The Kunsthaus Zürich explores the two artists’ fleeting but formative friendship
The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena lends new meaning to the trope of the ‘starving artist’
The Petit Palais pays homage to France’s most famous thespian
This year’s event brings together 79 artists from South East Asia and further afield
Tate Britain presents a Pre-Raphaelite family affair in the form of paintings, designs and poetry
The subject of a famous portrait by Velázquez was a talented painter in his own right
The NGA in Washington, D.C. explores how artists through the ages have drawn on the ’Commedia‘ for inspiration
While the two painters had little in common, this show at the Musée d'Orsay shows how they spurred one another to new heights
The Met explores the British artist’s ongoing interest in still lifes, mortality and mirroring
The artist’s surviving Virgilian canvases are reunited at the Galleria Borghese in Rome
Our most loyal four-legged friends are the focus of this exhibition at the Wallace Collection in London
