The Swiss artist maintains a strict working schedule to make the most of the daylight hours and keeps the writings of W.G. Sebald and Patti Smith close to hand
These small textile works at the Pergamonmuseum were among some of the most valuable objects in the Ottoman Empire
The German artist drew on her extensive travels through African countries to create works of rare intimacy and power
The Glasgow-based artist explores ideas of home and belonging at Dundee Contemporary Arts
With dazzling and unprecedented loans, the Louvre charts 17 centuries of Uzbekistan’s rich history
The gift shops are full of seasonal offerings for your nearest and dearest – and Rakewell has some recommendations
Plus: Adriano Pedrosa to curate the 2024 Venice Biennale, Cambridge to return Benin Bronzes, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Marrying into the Medici family made the Spanish noblewoman one of the most important artistic patrons of her day
New York’s January sales boast an impressive line-up, including a gruesome painting by Rubens and a lost portrait by Bronzino
It was Sebastiano del Piombo who rediscovered the ancient art of painting on stone and inspired others to make the most of their material
Plus: authorities seized looted artefacts from the home of Met trustee Shelby White, Artforum bought by Penske Media, and the rest of the week’s top stories
The America sociologist challenged the status quo with his radical infographics
The National Galley of Victoria in Melbourne explores how contemporary artists represent many manners of movement
The Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection in Berlin considers how F.W. Murnau looked to art history to create his groundbreaking horror film
The Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna revels in the history of festive occasions
Sotheby's has hired Lyn Harris to respond to Dutch Golden Age paintings with her ‘olfactory poetic landscapes’ – but Rakewell smells a rat
Last week Peter Doig was revealed as the latest artist to design a label for the chateau – a tradition that began in 1945 and remains shrouded in mystery
The Glaswegian artist works in the dark to a soundtrack of Irish rebel music and keeps a Narwhal penis bone next to his rifle and arctic wolf
The director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, talks to Apollo about ‘bossy’ objects, slashed funding and the stories collections tell
The artist who effortlessly crossed genres, but stayed close to south London, was best known for ‘A Humument’, a masterpiece 50 years in the making
Contemporary artists explore the fearful side of modernist architecture at Ikon, but a real sense of menace may be missing
The Hamburger Kunsthalle considers how the trope of the seductress has long cast its spell over the history of Western art
The Dutch lawyer Olfert de Vrij painted ships as a hobby – but they caught the eye of Prussian royalty
A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind the celebrated filmmaker’s first stop-motion animation film
