Romain Duris cuts a dash in a lavish French film about the engineer, but it’s the tower that’s the true star
There’s no disguising the gruesomeness of the trade that underpinned the scientific advances of the 18th century
In the works of Raphael the Virgin Mary often plays a more active and more joyful role than she is allowed by other artists
Piranesi may have fallen out with his Irish patron but, in modern-day Dublin, artists inspired by his example are looking to mend fences
Downtime is important for the artist in downtown Los Angeles, who has a figurine from a children’s television show keep watch over their studio
The V&A’s director Tristram Hunt has floated the idea of changing the law to allow national museums to make permanent returns. Robert Hewison advises treading very carefully
Who is the subject of the painter’s cryptically titled ‘Madame C d’A’? Tessa Murdoch looks for clues among his most progressive patrons
Plus: Documenta director resigns in anti-Semitism row, Italian authorities stop Artemisia sale in Vienna and New York DA’s office returns 142 artefacts to Italy
Bringing the European bison to Kent is intended to do wonders for the woodland, but Rakewell can’t help wondering if art needs rewilding too
Since the invention of the medium, photography has always had an ambiguous relationship with architecture
The exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art revels in the photographer’s love of the Californian landscape
The Scottish National Gallery celebrates the Scottish collectors who were quick to appreciate the Impressionists
Portraits of Black leaders, writers and entertainers are at the heart of this exhibition of works by the contemporary Brazilian artist at the Museu de Arte São Paulo
The Albertina in Vienna marks its acquisition of the Jablonka Collection with an exhibition of works by the Italian-American painter
An extremely close look at François Boucher’s portrait of the marquise in the Fogg Museum at Harvard homes in on the painter’s use of his signature colour
The New York-based artist listens to experimental jazz and audiobooks about physics, and likes to keep her studio floor clean enough for bare feet
The painter’s use of gold in his works suggests a debt to earlier artists – and reveals a more antiquarian side of 15th-century Florence
First a man in a Maserati, then the hurling of a scooter – and now a spat between fashion houses. What on earth has got into everyone?
Art UK’s new catalogue allows us to assess the artistic merits of the nation’s monuments – and to mourn a lost memorial to Percy Bysshe Shelley
The contemporary ink-and-wash painter puts a modern spin on the traditional Korean art form at LACMA
To mark the 175th anniversary of his birth, the Alte Nationalgalerie reflects on the life and works of Max Liebermann
In 1902, the German-Swiss painter was the first living woman artist to have a work acquired by the Städel; now she has a survey to herself
Works by the collective of Black photographers that started out in Harlem go on display at the Getty Center
