The Crown Jewels are what the castle is most famous for, but over the centuries it has housed everything from prisoners to military hardware
The father figure to the Impressionists gets his own moment in the limelight with this survey at the Kunstmuseum Basel
Exit through the gift shop at Tottenham Hotspur and you’ll find a gallery full of art inspired by the beautiful game
Not all works of art need be interpreted – some simply demand that we spend some quality time with them
These days the California-based artist works nomadically in the Mojave Desert – which means playing host to the odd mountain lion
David Chipperfield’s cool, if costly, renovation plays to the gallery’s minimalist strengths
Colombia’s indigenous communities are toppling statues of the Spanish conquerors to highlight past and present injustices
The portraits of James Barnor, Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé conjure up an image of cool modernity – but also draw on a long photographic tradition
We don’t know if the foreign secretary made it to the Palace of Knossos, but his career may soon be ancient history
Chuck Close has died at the age of 81. The photorealist painter first came to prominence in the late 1960s…
The Glasgow-based artist misses bumping into her studio neighbours in the corridors – but has a bag of volcanic ash to keep her company these days
One of the largest floor-based sculptures in existence returns to the space it was originally designed for, at the Kunsthaus Zürich
From early abstractions to recent activism – the De Young presents a wide-ranging survey of the artist’s life and work
At the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Swiss premiere of a work that celebrates the glory of 35mm film
The Scottish artist’s first solo museum show features some 20 of her candid depictions of women at home and at work
A pair of amateur fossil hunters have uncovered a section of Jurassic sea floor in a sleepy corner of England
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