Milan Design Week is, at its best, a comforting reminder of how good design can transform our lives
An exhibition in Tokyo celebrating the artists and artisans Loewe has worked with over the decades is tailor-made for craft lovers
An exhibition of ancient art spanning centuries and islands isn’t afraid to let the objects speak for themselves
The subject of a painting by Marie Laurencin was actually a French film star, but it will always have a strong family connection
The Krone winery makes bubbly using French methods, but its steadfast support of artists and chefs is what really makes it sparkle
The treacherous journey to get to Colomé, home to a private art gallery and one of the world’s highest wineries, is well worth the trek
The ceramics collection of Renato de Albuquerque can now be found in a state-of-the-art centre on a mission to educate and entice the public
Eastern icons for the Louvre and French Old Masters for the Art Institute of Chicago are among the most important works to have entered public collections recently
In a powerful painting acquired by the Yale Center for British Art, the artist grapples with universal themes of love and loss, explains the museum’s director, Martina Droth
Generations of residents have chosen to live in Los Angeles, perilously, but are the hazards now becoming too great?
An accomplished musician as well as a painter, Lorenzo Costa was perfectly placed to capture the changing fashions and shifting social etiquette of his day
Clad in the symbolic designs of artist and founder Barthélémy Toguo, the arts centre in Cameroon is breaking new ground
The effect of translating Anni's textiles and Josef's paintings to fashion is, paradoxically, a heightened appreciation for the original work
With new leadership and restored rooms that haven’t looked this good since the Ancien Régime, the palace is entering a new golden era
A large painting of three boys in the water does not readily disclose its secrets – but perhaps that is precisely the point
Tessa Hadley is unsettled by Giovanni Bellini’s eerily calm depiction of the murder of Saint Peter Martyr
This nomadic gallery finally has a permanent home, but can the impressive collection protect it from Poland’s fraught cultural politics?
In his voluptuous paintings of cakes and other foodstuffs, the American artist captured both pleasure and a sense of surfeit
The novelist was a wandering soul, so what can his house in London – now celebrating its centenary as a museum – tell us about the man?
A meditative painting by Qi Baishi demonstrates his modern approach to an ancient art form, explains Jeremy Zhang of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
The Flemish castle bought by Rubens in 1635 was intended as a country retreat, and it inspired the artist’s greatest landscapes
Working in the new medium of pastels, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour portrayed the elites of his day in a style to suit the hedonism of the age
Picasso was the possessor of a hearty appetite and depictions of alcohol and excess are also central to his work
Recent rehangs at the Met and the Brooklyn Museum suggest that part of the answer lies in respecting the viewer’s own capacity for interpretation
