José María Velasco: A View of Mexico
The 19th-century painter’s landscapes captured the beauty of the Valley of Mexico as well as the growth of industrial production
The 19th-century painter’s landscapes captured the beauty of the Valley of Mexico as well as the growth of industrial production
This week marks 100 years since John Logie Baird demonstrated the first television; we explore four works that make the most out of this now-ubiquitous medium
Clad in the symbolic designs of artist and founder Barthélémy Toguo, the arts centre in Cameroon is breaking new ground
Canadian and Scandinavian painters approached their respective landscapes in distinctive ways and with differing levels of realism
With new leadership and restored rooms that haven’t looked this good since the Ancien Régime, the palace is entering a new golden era
Plus: chair of National Endowment for the Humanities steps down after presidential pressure and far-right Greek MP arrested after allegedly vandalising art in National Gallery
The club has announced plans to build the biggest football stadium in the world, but can a piece of architecture really solve its ongoing identity crisis?
The Albertina puts the British artist’s debt to Old Masters and Christian iconography in the spotlight
On Pi Day, the annual celebration of the ever-fascinating mathematical constant, we round up four artworks that make the most out of the humble circle
The Isokon Building has become an architectural icon, but its own history is full of scandal and Central European emigrés
The American artist explains how he looks to his own past to create his devilishly inventive films, paintings and installations
William Andrews Nesfield was a military man who designed elaborate schemes that sum up what people mean when they talk about Victorian formal gardens
Plus: Bernd Ebert appointed director of the Dresden State Paintings Collections and long-lost Brueghel found in Dutch museum
While museums are desperate to stop climate actions involving works of art, a gallery in London has put defaced paintings front and centre, tomato soup and all
While other events are contracting, this New York mainstay remains a force to be reckoned with
The artist has been making installations about bees for years. His apian interests are now the subject of an exhibition at the World Museum
The innovations of artists in the first half of the 14th century created new pathways for painting for centuries to come
A study of the painter’s business practices finds faults with her financial acumen and artistic training – though not everyone will agree
Tessa Hadley is unsettled by Giovanni Bellini’s eerily calm depiction of the murder of Saint Peter Martyr
From Rembrandt in Frankfurt to pictures of puddings in The Hague, there's plenty to see within touching distance of the fair