This month’s highlights include a Francis Bacon triptych that was once the most expensive artwork ever sold and a trove of Dada and Surrealist works
The newly renovated Station Hall at the National Railway Museum in York tracks 200 years of train travel, from royal dining cars to railwaymen’s outfits
The humble tuber, rich in its own history, has long been a source of inspiration for painters depicting the peasant classes
When the radical patron wasn’t collecting the work of modern British artists, she was urging them to join her in protesting against nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War
The emergence of Le Creuset cookware a century ago sparked a change in how home kitchens both looked and functioned
The first fully fledged edition of the event offers a fast-paced guide to the city’s thriving contemporary art scene
The National Gallery is the latest UK arts institution to announce a citizens’ assembly. But what does this involve – and will any real decisions be taken?
Little known for centuries after his death in 1652, except as a French follower of Caravaggio, the painter is now rightly recognised as a singular talent
While exiled in the city, Marie Antoinette’s favourite artist struck up a close friendship with her own idol, Angelica Kauffman
New galleries are springing up, enriching the city’s cultural life and adding to the offerings of the university
This magnificent gilded cup fuses organic form with astonishing craftsmanship, explains Caterina Badan of the Schroder Collection
The first Marie Bracquemond in a UK collection and a group of Chinese prints are among the most enticing works to enter public collections recently
In works such as ‘The Communist: A Political Meeting’, the Welsh painter Evan Walters captured the hopes and fears of working-class communities
As emerging global powers are using culture to further their political and economic goals, is Britain keeping up?
The sculptures of Conrad Shawcross, several of which are installed in vineyards around the world, have a clear affinity with the craft of wine-making
The artist and occultist’s rapturous account of her travels around Ireland give a glimpse into her surreal view of the world
The French artist believed in his paintings being stylistically uniform and infinitely replicable – an idea that, a century on, has not done him any favours
The vast Cinecittà film studio complex had such an influence on cinema it came to be known as ‘Hollywood on the Tiber’
At Beamish, the award-winning Living Museum of the North, everyday English life is recreated on a vast scale
Though museums use them to provide more information, QR codes can conceal as much as they reveal
Among this month’s highlights are a brooding self-portrait by Spilliaert and a masterpiece of late gothic sculpture
The grain originated in pre-Columbian Mexico but became so highly prized in Italy that it made its way into paintings, plays and more
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
The artist mixed making abstract sculpture with populist public commissions. As her reputation soars, her generosity of spirit is as apparent as her inventiveness
