Majesty and Mortar: Palaces on the BBC
The final episode of Dan Cruickshank's enthusiastic and engaging tour of 'Britain's Great Palaces' airs on BBC4 tonight
The final episode of Dan Cruickshank's enthusiastic and engaging tour of 'Britain's Great Palaces' airs on BBC4 tonight
Eight versions of Roubiliac's portrait bust of Alexander Pope have been brought together at Waddesdon Manor
It won't pull in the crowds, but this niche exhibition rewards those who do visit
Baccio Bandinelli is arguably the least loved major artist of the Renaissance. This is the ideal opportunity to reconsider his achievement
Please join us at the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair for a discussion between experts
Has the time come for a revival of connoisseurship?
Ostrowski insists that he is a ‘romantic’ painter...But here, all of the emotion is drained out
The current appetite for merging food and art is nothing new...
What do we mean by 'connoisseurship' these days?
'Building the Picture' is accompanied by the National Gallery's first fully digital catalogue
Fischer's sculptures are on show at Gagosian's new Park Avenue space, and a temporary downtown venue
Potentially looted items, such as those identified this week at Christie's and Bonhams, keep making it to auction
Gurlitt's extraordinary cache of art, much of which is being investigated as possible Nazi loot, is bigger than we thought – again
Launched just months before the outbreak of war, Vorticism was ill-timed and short-lived. But it's a vital chapter in the history of British art
The museum omitted Chinese artefacts from a history of homosexuality
The chiaroscuro woodcut prints in this exhibition are technically brilliant and visually beautiful. The only thing they lack here is context
A round-up of the week's reviews: murals, ruins, maps and charts, and contemporary responses to historic art...
The current Piranesi exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum raises interesting questions about original artworks and their reproductions
Nilima Sheikh's extraordinary paintings need more introduction than they are given here
'There’s nothing particularly radical or subversive in ridiculing the classical'. Matthew Darbyshire discusses art history, appropriation, contemporary clichés