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
Venice, the oldest and biggest biennale of all, returns in 2019, but there’s a plethora of other events to look forward to
The major architectural events to look out for in 2019, from museums in Hollywood and Qatar to office buildings in London
The National Museum of Qatar and a centre for street art are among the institutions opening next year
The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm has a world-class collection and an international outlook to match
Fernand Khnopff was among the most original artists of the fin-de-siècle – but his dreamlike images are unmistakably Belgian
Many artists take themes such as migration, climate change, and human rights as their subjects, but what are they actually doing with them?
A major collection of Swiss art and an early Dutch genre painting are among this month’s top acquisitions
The artist is remembered as a pioneer of Minimalism, but his legacy as an experimental performer is equally powerful
The liveliness of the international art fair shows that the Nigerian arts scene is going from strength to strength
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
