An exhibition at the Ashmolean suggests that for Rubens and his peers, graphite, ink and chalk were not simply preparatory tools but a means of reinventing matter
As the Metropolitan Museum of Art enters a new era, its past decisions are still sending ripples into the present, so what does the future hold?
Plus: Denver Art Museum returns 11 more artefacts to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam and some Damien Hirst sculptures may be more recently made than they seem
The godfather of Pop has designed a range of Budweiser cans – and he’s not the only creative type who has taken to drink
The Polish artist’s paintings inspired by famous works and made for an upcoming film get star billing at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam
The William Morris Gallery in London is a fitting host for works by Japanese makers inspired by the Art and Crafts movement
Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens are known primarily for their virtuosic large-scale paintings, but both were also highly skilled draughtsman
The Musée d’Orsay demonstrates how far the work of Monet, Morisot, Renoir and co. has come since the art establishment shunned it 150 years ago
In the Turner Prize-winner’s first major show in Scotland in two decades, his sculptures are best viewed at something of a remove
As Hindu communities around the world celebrate Holi, we look at four artworks that depict this vibrantly colourful festival
Fleeing persecution in France, thousands of Protestant silversmiths set up shop around Europe – and London attracted many of the most skilful
Koen Bulckens of the Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp explains what makes the painter’s portrait of ‘the weeping prophet’ such an emotional tour de force
Far from hindering budding Barbara Krugers and Andy Warhols, day jobs have sometimes helped the creative process
There are plenty of new discoveries to be made at the Paris fair focused on fine draughtsmanship
The painter’s desire for food and drink can be traced throughout a collection of obsessive shopping lists dotted with drawings
Joe Tilson’s stained-glass window in Midlothian was one of his last works and suffuses a 15th-century place of worship with just a hint of grooviness
The Ugandan-born artist treats her sculpture studio as a strict place of work – except for the occasional glass of Japanese whisky
Jackie Wullschläger’s biography invites us to take another look at a painter whose canvases make a direct appeal to the eye
The French artist wrestles with the limits of reality in Venice, a city famous for masks and disguises
The Louvre has restored the Van Eyck masterpiece for the first time since it entered the museum in 1800
London’s National Portrait Gallery brings together the work of two photographers who worked a century apart
The artist’s refusal to restrict herself to a single medium makes the Museum Ludwig’s retrospective a restless affair
Plus: Met employees and volunteers call for the museum to defend Palestinian cultural heritage, and Russian security forces raid artists’s homes before the presidential elections
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