The Bard Graduate Center’s celebration of the profusion of flamboyant pottery in the 19th century is now online
The Kunstmuseum Basel pays tribute to an artist who applied her geometric designs to everything from pillowcases to puppet theatres
The German painter moved freely between Surrealism, Expressionism and Symbolism, as this display in Hamburg reveals
Christie’s just sold a Jpeg file for a staggering $69.3 million. There’ll be a saving on shipping costs, if nothing else…
A pair of Lear’s macaws, named after the poet, painter and parrot-lover, have been released into the wild in Brazil
Photographers and film-makers have long added colour to their images – but does the current craze for colourisation create a false impression of olden times?
With works spanning centuries and cultures, there’s plenty to captivate you at this year’s event – whether you’re visiting in person or browsing online
Norman Rosenthal celebrates a great champion of contemporary art in Britain, who as director of the Tate founded the Turner Prize
A display of interwar posters is a reminder of that utopian moment when artists believed they could invent a new world
Will Martin steps away from his screen and takes his cues from some of the world’s leading contemporary artists
Locked down in Arles, the celebrated interiors photographer François Halard made a series of dreamlike Polaroids that emerge as an enigmatic self-portrait
Gillian Wearing is in an unusually candid mode in her lockdown paintings, writes Martin Herbert – if you take them at face value, that is
Plus: V&A to merge departments and cut 140 jobs | UK government announces £390m to help arts venues reopen | Alan Bowness (1928–2021) | and missing Jacob Lawrence painting discovered in Manhattan
A virtual display of palimpsests at Cambridge University Library reveals how scholars have sought to recover erased texts
The palatial resting place of Rome’s first emperor finally opens its doors to visitors
Explore the fantastical world of the avant-garde sculptor, who sought to imagine ‘a new kind of life’
The Prado hosts the first survey dedicated to this 16th-century painter of saints and tax collectors
Thanks to deepfake technology you can make Rembrandt roll his eyes – and be creeped out by the results
With nightclubs in crisis, photographs of clubbers leave Peter Scott feeling nostalgic for the ’90s rave scene
When Marie Antoinette had a theatre built at Versailles, her play-acting took to a stage of its own – and now this splendid interior has been meticulously restored
There’s a healthy tradition of art to challenge vaccine sceptics – from satirical cartoons to contemporary sculptures
The panel from one of the American painter’s great narrative series is the second to have shown up by chance in quick succession
European paintings still occupy prime real estate on Fifth Avenue – but a redisplay offers fresh insight into the Met’s hallowed holdings
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