In this Netflix series a film conservator is tasked with rescuing a set of videotapes from the 1990s. What could possibly go wrong?
To trail the artist through Europe, as this lively exhibition does, is to realise that his art relied on movement
Roger Michell’s last film tells the unlikely story of how the Duke of Wellington’s portrait was stolen from the National Gallery – and found in a train station four years later
The artist’s independence of mind and spectacular skill led to her becoming the first female sculptor to the Spanish king
Salomé Jashi’s film ‘Taming the Garden’ documents how a tree-hogging former prime minister is pillaging the landscape to create a private paradise
The familiarity of the designer’s most famous products has long obscured his more utopian side
In the six years before his tragically early death, the Italian artist zoomed in on the details of the everyday – to supremely unsettling effect
Christianity, Judaism and Islam shared a visual language on the Iberian peninsula – but it was a fragile balance at the best of times
When it came to painting the industrial north-west, Stockport-born Alan Lowndes could hold his own
The designer’s favourite museum is the Wallace Collection, so it’s no wonder her clothes are full of flourishes from Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard
In the course of her adventures in abstraction, the artist seemed determined to test herself in every available medium
The museum devoted to the history of the Paris is itself an important part of that history – so it’s a relief that so many of its quirks remain
Adrian Tinniswood’s new book focuses on the aristocrats and rock stars who secured the futures of the houses they owned – or moved into
The British Museum presents the mysteries and marvels of the Andean civilisations predating modern Peru
In what now seems like a warning from history, the artist’s only feature film is about a magazine editor who is forced to work at home
A new study assesses 19th-century interventions on paintings by Giotto and other masters, and their impact on art history
In the decade before his death, John Constable developed a freer hand to follow new visions – to astonishing effect
William Hogarth liked to present himself as a bluff Englishman, but the truth was a touch more complicated
The Dutch painter already knew the majority of the sitters in his lively portraits of merchants and dignitaries – and it shows
What goes up inevitably must come down – but for a fleeting moment some photographers have tried to suggest otherwise
Rebecca Birrell’s absorbing book asks us to look beneath the surface of work by women artists – but perhaps a rose sometimes really is just a rose?
Nicholas Penny’s survey of 17th- and 18th-century Italian paintings in the Norton Simon Museum reveals the astute figure behind the collections
The artists featured in this exhibition didn’t share the same outlook or methods, but their variousness is part of the point
Sadie Frost’s documentary about the designer is hardly original, but then Quant didn’t actually invent the miniskirt – and it doesn’t hurt to be reminded of her genius
