Make a date with the Stone of Destiny at the new Perth Museum
The ancient Scottish relic makes for a captivating moment of theatre, but the rest of the displays are just as artfully done
The ancient Scottish relic makes for a captivating moment of theatre, but the rest of the displays are just as artfully done
After the First World War, German artists took an unflinching look at the realities of everyday life in the Weimar Republic
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the invention of the Rubik’s Cube, we look at four toys and games spanning centuries and continents that offer different perspectives on how to have fun
Seeing art is often a purely visual experience, but we shouldn't be afraid of exploring our other senses in the gallery
An exhibition at the Soane Museum shows that technical drawings of buildings are often more complex than they may seem
The museum’s head of framing, Peter Schade, is quietly changing how we see some of the world’s most famous pictures
Why did Dorothy Hepworth allow her lover Patricia Preece to take the credit for her paintings? An intriguing exhibition at Charleston provides some clues
In its telling of the story of the Mingei movement, the William Morris Gallery takes a refreshingly international approach
A luscious portrait by Johann Richard Seel and a magnificent bronze statue by Giambologna are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
Three hundred years of cultural exchange are the focus of this show at Harvard Art Museums
The painter who began as a master of modernist abstraction kept reinventing himself right until the end
The Pontiff touched down in Venice this week, but God knows what he thought of the art on display at the Biennale’s Vatican pavilion
If sales so far this year are anything to go by, the high-profile auctions taking place this month may not bring much excitement
In the first half of the 15th century, artists drew on the Northern and Italian Renaissances to create a distinctly French cultural flowering
Karlo Kacharava was only 30 when he died in 1984. In Georgia, he is regarded as a one-man avant-garde and his work is now being acclaimed abroad
The artist takes inspiration from Billie Holiday, El Greco and a pair of old Indian puppets when painting large-scale canvases in his East London studio
This year’s laudably international line-up gives plenty of space to photography, performance and video
The Italian designer’s pared-back approach to craftsmanship always prized the practical over the pretty
The pop artist believed that artists should make work for the masses. Decades after his death, his images are everywhere
The maestro’s first contract with FC Barcelona, written on a napkin, has been withdrawn from auction after a dispute between his current and former agents