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?
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
Thirty years after the novelist's death, Apollo revisits the Ripley creator's close ties to the visual arts
The home the writer designed for herself in the hills of Massachusetts is a window on to the shifting tastes of Gilded Age America
Highlights include a trove of photographs by Robert Frank and the first Bernini statue in a Dutch public collection
The Aga Khan IV, who has died at the age of 88, formed an important collection of Islamic art and dedicated some of his fabulous wealth to cultural heritage projects around the world
Helen Gordon charts the fall and cultural rise of the Ensisheim meteorite of 1492
A textural triumph and a sensual delight, this distinctly '80s ice cream is as pleasing to look at as it is to consume
Two restored masterpieces – one vast in scale, the other intimate – are being shown together for the first time to give us fresh insights into ‘the first light of Renaissance painting’
The Great Pompeii project has more than lived up to the name, but it’s now time for a period of conservation and consolidation
