How do you open a private collection up to the public? A recent symposium at the Courtauld Institute looked at the topical issue
Exiled from their deserted piazzas, Giorgio de Chirico's sculptural figures lack the uncanny appeal of his paintings
A round-up of the highlights from this year's contemporary projects at the London Art Fair
'A World of Private Mystery: John Craxton' at the Fitzwilliam Museum celebrates the artist's 'unfashionably happy' late paintings
Castiglione's works at the Queen's Gallery skilfully emulate, but never quite live up to, those of his more famous contemporaries
The authors of 'Emerald' present a sparkling visual and social history of the precious stone in this ambitious new publication
'Yoga: The Art of Transformation' at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery takes an overdue look at the subject in art. Its powerful yogini statues steal the show
The reification of 'revolutionary' work by John Cage and the Fluxus artists at MoMA is unsettlingly contradictory. The artist is dead. Long live the artist!
The story of the interrelationship of textiles, taste and commerce, is told with magnificence and aplomb by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
What can one write about art that is impossible to define? Laure Prouvost's 'Monolog' at the Contemporary Art Society relies on its mistranslation
Dark but deeply compelling, Wael Shawky's films at the Serpentine Gallery are a reminder of the power and unreliability of stories
Fausto Melotti, the quiet man of modern Italian sculpture, is given a first UK retrospective at the Waddington Custot Galleries
‘Antoniazzo Romano: Pictor Urbis’ at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome attempts to shed new light on this enigmatic artist’s career
'We can’t avoid the romance of that era'... Kevin Francis Gray discusses the influence of classical art on his own work at Pace Gallery
'White Light/White Heat' at the Wallace Collection and London College of Fashion reflects on glass as a contemporary medium
It's an interesting premise, but ‘The Russian Avant-garde, Siberia and the East' at Palazzo Strozzi is ultimately rather disorientating
Edmund de Waal creates an atmosphere of meditation at the Fitzwilliam Museum with the display 'On White: Porcelain Stories'
Despite a few bland contemporary exhibits, 'Art and Appetite' at the Art Institute of Chicago is an excellent survey of a nation's changing tastes
As the Turner Prize winner is announced in Derry, 'Bloomberg New Contemporaries' at London's ICA seeks out tomorrow's big names
'Artist of gems' Joel A. Rosenthal measures the value of a stone not in carats but in colour. His designs sparkle at the Metropolitan Museum
The Fondation Cartier's exhibition of Latin American photography features defiantly eloquent works that mix visual experiment and political fury
Samuel Cooper famously painted Oliver Cromwell 'warts and all'. It's worth getting up close to his superb miniatures at Philip Mould's gallery
The recent two-day symposium, ‘Art, Poetry and the Making of the Book’, brought together three veterans of British book-art with some new tricks
'Immersive' artwork such as Elmgreen & Dragset's 'Tomorrow' at the V&A is touted as the 21st century's spin on a gesamtkunstwerk, but has the hyperreal already become familiar?
