A Peter Doig landscape, a Banksy banknote, and a rare Rembrandt have entered public collections recently
The new Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes makes the most of the city’s classical past
The painter’s commitment to white taught us new things about colour and about painting itself
The museum founded by Leopold II has reopened after a five-year closure and rethought all its displays. Has it gone far enough?
The under-representation of women by commercial art galleries helps depress their prices. How can this change?
The Museum of Jurassic Technology is full of natural and man-made curiosities that inspire genuine wonder
The bicentenary of the great Victorian critic’s birth is an occasion to consider how well his ideas have stood the test of time
With an ambitious digitisation project, Art UK aims to foster appreciation of an art form that is sometimes overlooked
John Ruskin, Paul Nash and a host of more recent artists have found geology a rich seam to mine
The British sculptor was a great talent in his own right and a dedicated teacher
The last phase of the museum’s makeover gives its Egyptian, East Asian and ceramic collections a chance to shine
A new online database reveals how before photography, watercolours were used as visual records
Norman Foster’s expansion of the museum in West Palm Beach has been unveiled – and the institution’s new look is enticingly offbeat
A 19th-century artist spent decades creating this remarkable pomological collection
A medieval book coffer and a painting by Rembrandt’s teacher are among the top recent museum acquisitions
The Bowes Museum looks at how art dealers have shaped museum collections
Rarely exhibited objects from Saharan Africa, viewed alongside familiar European works, offer a fresh take on the Middle Ages
With his ambitious new public project in Genk, the Belgian artist fuses art, activism and animal husbandry
An exhibition in Dallas places the spotlight on the life and art of Georgia O’Keeffe’s younger sister
A Midwestern epic painting and minimalist marvels were among the top works to enter museum collections last month
Highlights include a celebration of Cosimo de’ Medici at the Uffizi and ceramics from Africa at the Design Museum in Munich
Some seem beguiled by VR technology but others are using it to confront our faith in digital progress
From Leonardo to the Prado, and from the Bauhaus to the birth of John Ruskin, 2019 is full of significant anniversaries
From a Van Gogh biopic to a novel about Lee Miller, the books and films with an art-historical twist coming up in the next few months
