Features

The museum’s gallery of historic plaster casts – newly restored – has long inspired conflicting responses

During the Jomon period the Japanese archipelago was home to one of the prehistoric world’s most innovative societies

Advances in digital imaging are revolutionising the study of art history

The 18th-century painter’s depictions of servants paused at work raise questions about the nature of attention

Bruegel may have painted many peasants, but he was one of the most complex – and urbane – artists of his day

A major exhibition devoted to the artist restores her – and the craft of weaving – to the heart of the modern movement

The reopened museum in Maryland raises the bar for what we can expect from private collections

The British artist was a key figure in the social research movement known as Mass Observation

The Met’s exhibition helps us understand a region that has always been hard to define, but there are many other stories to be told

After years of closure, the National Museum in Belgrade and MoCAB are both open again

Much of Walpole’s extensive collection is about to return to its original neo-gothic surroundings

An exhibition on the art of the Scottish poet reveals the impact that his friendship with the St Ives artists had on his own work

The Amos Rex brings together classic Finnish functionalism and a futuristic underground space

The pioneering space for contemporary art has reopened and transformed itself into a vital local centre

Five leading museum directors pick objects that should be seen by every child in America

To mark the 500th anniversary of Tintoretto’s birth, the Venetian artist is finally having a major exhibition in his hometown