In search of Ghana’s looted Asante gold
Barnaby Phillips’s new book follows the many twists and turns of the royal treasures Britain took from the Asante kingdom
Barnaby Phillips’s new book follows the many twists and turns of the royal treasures Britain took from the Asante kingdom
For the Surrealist, alcohol provided both an escape from reality and a commercial opportunity
The largest amount of wealth ever passed down from one generation to the next is about to change hands. What risks does this pose for the art market?
When he wasn’t writing plays, soldiering or doing hard time for being a suspected spy, John Vanbrugh was busy bringing the baroque to Britain
Forty years after publication, Janet and Allan Ahlberg’s classic picture book delivers as much joy and humour as ever
A masterpiece of medieval German sculpture and a portrait by Joshua Reynolds are among the most important works to have entered public collections recently
Plus: Plans for Centre Pompidou’s New Jersey outpost scrapped; and French police arrest nine people suspected of Louvre ticket-fraud scheme
From the Comédie Française to the National Gallery, the documentarian’s portraits reveal the painstaking work that goes into creative expression
Niccolò dell’Arca's terracotta sculpture depicting the lamentation of Christ captures the mixed emotions wrapped up in grief
A new biography celebrates the brilliance of the artist who shaped our image of the Tudors
With the help of Edmund de Waal, an exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield brings out the Danish polymath’s playful side
The dystopian series asks whether creativity has any value when everyone thinks the same way
The late Hungarian film-maker’s epic studies of apocalyptic gloom have never seemed more ravishing or more timely
Exploring the history of the period through objects reveals the extent to which art underwent a revolution
While annual registers that sound the alarm for architectural and cultural sites have accumulated, their challenge remains Sisyphean
Labour has been in power for 18 months now, but the arts sector is still very much in the red
A mammoth retrospective in Paris confirms the German artist as one of the world’s greatest living painters – and one of the most elusive
Associate curator in European sculpture and decorative arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Best known for his horrifying tales of the supernatural, the author was inspired by his work as a medievalist and the spookiness of antique objects
The contents of the artist’s house were sold after his death and Annemarie Kloosterhof has remade the most elusive of these in paper – to wonderfully spooky effect