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
A display of Chinese miniatures explores the diverse cultural and social uses of these small-scale sculptures
Plus: Tom Phillips (1937–2022), Horniman hands over Benin Bronzes, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Art-fair visitors who aren’t afraid to declare their worth can take advantage of MSCHF’s very public ATM machine
The Arts Council’s decision to move money out of London ignores the fact that arts institutions rely upon each other to nurture talent
London's Old Master sales this month include a version of a great ‘poesie’ painting – though questions have been raised about its attribution
