Matthew Maty, a leading advocate for inoculation, was also a librarian at the British Museum – and one of its early donors
The jewel in the crown of the city’s palatial complex of museums now shows off its masterpieces to even better effect
Recreating scenes from famous paintings has been all the rage of lockdown, but it’s the Victorians who first played make-believe in earnest
Beads, bottles, broken plates... these scraps of London’s history provide a welcome distraction in a time of sickness and solitude
The critic and curator, who coined the term Arte Povera, played a large part in shaping the art world as we know it
Was the pledge to restore the cathedral in just five years a reasonable commitment or a rash promise?
The bicentenary of the founder of modern nursing has a particularly topical resonance, but how did her contemporaries regard the Lady with the Lamp?
An illustrated inventory made for Jean de Jullienne shows us how his paintings were displayed
The artist knew exactly how to cultivate her own image, ensuring her great success – both then and now
The museum makes the most of its French connections in this survey of conduct across medieval Europe and the Middle East
Sequestered in a French chateau in the 1940s, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Jean Arp, Sonia Delaunay and Alberto Magnelli joined forces to create the ‘Album Grasse’
From Victorian spiritualists to contemporary practitioners, there is a long history of art – and drawing in particular – taking an interest in the unseen
From lockdowns to mass burials, the ways we visualise Covid-19 were established by photographers in the late 19th century
From Nikolai Gogol to Susan Sontag, Joan Didion to Olga Tokarczuk: the authors inspiring artists during a time of lockdown
The artist’s designs for Elizabeth David’s cookery books evoke a happy world of fine living and dining
The artist’s fashion etchings hint at the delight in transient pleasures that is so evident in his paintings
What exactly does it take to create an online exhibition? And will such platforms still be of use after lockdown?
A transformative gift for Cleveland Museum of Art and some metal detectorists’ finds are among this month’s highlights
The 250th anniversary of the poet’s birth prompts a reflection on his complicated relationship with the visual arts
An interdisciplinary project at the Fitzwilliam Museum has revealed tantalising possibilities about Jacopo del Sellaio’s Cupid and Psyche
How the women at the heart of the Restoration court ‘weaponised’ portraits that flaunted their influence over the king
The National Gallery’s Artemisia exhibition may be postponed, writes its curator, but there are plenty of ways to explore her work in the meantime
Some choose their wallpaper, some have paint schemes thrust upon them... a decorative dérive through the history of colour and interiors
After a period of critical neglect the artist is at last in the ascendant, as his great friend James Baldwin always thought he would be
