The figurative artists of the 1920s and '30s should not be considered secondary to their abstract contemporaries – as numerous recent exhibitions have shown
Australia continued to haunt Sidney Nolan’s imagination long after the painter made his home in Britain
After years of expansion, funding is a major issue for the city's museums. How will they fare if the Trump administration provokes fresh culture wars?
The idea to bring the Pompidou to Brussels has been met with scepticism: will it just be a tourist attraction or will it enhance the city's cultural scene?
Was Van Gogh arrested in Arles on the night that he severed his own ear?
The finest new additions to public art collections, from a large group of Cuban art in Miami, to G. F. Watts' celebrated portrait of Violet Lindsay
In 1970 Rauschenberg left New York City for an island off the Florida coast. His retreat from the city transformed his art, and his legacy
The Queen's House in Greenwich is steeped in so much history that curators have struggled to decide what to highlight. But now the problem seems to have been solved
Pedro II, Brazil's 'citizen-emperor' was a devoted patron of the new technology and a keen photographer himself
'When this collection began, no one thought that Islam would be on everyone's lips'
Sabine Haag, the director-general of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, discusses how one of the world's grandest museums is preparing for the future
A tour of some of the highlights of the NPG's hidden collection
MoMA and the Musée d'Orsay are the big winners: they both received landmark gifts from prominent collectors that will transform their holdings
Throughout Chinese history, jade has been prized for its beauty and its spiritual associations. Its appeal continues today, but its role is changing
For all its fame, Giles Gilbert Scott's 'temple of power' in Battersea has had a chequered and difficult history. Is its future finally secure?
The curator, academic critic, and novelist was an inspirational figure, but also a dear friend to many in the art world
More than 2,000 objects of porcelain, lacquer, jade, enamel and ivory have been catalogued, researched, conserved, and photographed
Two months after the devastating quake in central Italy, it's still not clear how much of the region's heritage has been destroyed
How Sergei Shchukin brought paintings by the most trailblazing members of the French avant-garde to Russia
Lucas Cranach's service to the Reformation went beyond creating iconic images of the Protestant reformer Martin Luther
A renovation project at the Philadelphia Museum of Art pays tribute to Stella Kramrisch, the woman who made their collection possible
One of Saddam Hussein’s crumbling former palaces has been transformed into a state of the art display space for Iraqi antiquities
London's School of Oriental and African Studies has taught scholars, spies and Hollywood stars
September sees multiple new additions to museum collections, including the Getty's record-breaking purchase of a Roman cabinet once owned by a Pope and a King
