Sotheby’s claims the rockstar was also a fervent art collector but Rakewell can’t help wonder if this is just fantasy?
France releases its restitution report and this year’s Turner Prize shortlist has been announced
At the age of 91, the artist has produced a series of remarkable self-portraits, now on show at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
Georgia’s most celebrated painter documented his nation’s customs and landscapes in a distinctive, naive style
There’s strong competition in the Big Apple this month, with a martial portrait by Rubens and a late landscape by Henri Rousseau among the contenders
How the Persian empire set the standard for luxury living in the ancient world
Garments and hand-drawn sketches trace the extraordinary career of the pioneering designer
Art and dance have been engaged in a pas de deux for centuries
The National Gallery considers how Franciscan teachings have inspired artists from the Renaissance to the present
The artist starts the day by watering the plants on his balcony from where he can watch people eating at a neighbouring restaurant
A catalogue of the museum’s unrivalled collection of silver and gold is a thing of beauty
A show about the many variations and chequered history of the fabric even lets visitors see what’s worn under the kilt
The Menil Collection in Houston looks at the groundbreaking work of a curator who brought a new generation of American artists into museums
Three hundred years after the composer moved into his London townhouse, what does the art collection he amassed there tell us about his music?
The painter who never stopped seeing her subjects as individuals described her works as ‘pictures of people’ rather than ‘portraits’
Pedestrianisation means that one of London's finest churches is now the centre of attention again
The fair returns to Manhattan with a strong focus on designers, women artists, new discoveries and forgotten stories
The Musée Jacquemart-André shows that the painter was always open to new influences
From votive offerings to anatomical models, wax is the perfect material for blurring the boundaries between art and life
When Simon Pettet moved into Dennis Severs’ House in Spitalfields he began to channel the 18th century in the 1980s
The Art Gallery of New South Wales’s extension is too populist and commercially minded for some – but it is full of possibilities
Diane Smyth considers the state of private and public photography collections in the UK
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s sculpture garden in Piedmont is also home to the family rosé
