The new-look Musée de Cluny and the Burrell Collection reopen, while there are also treats in store for fans of Bob Dylan and Serge Gainsbourg
The museum in Seoul is dedicated to the Joseon dynasty who ruled for more than 500 years, but also contains reminders of Korea’s turbulent 20th-century history
The year ahead brings significant anniversaries and, consequently, blockbuster exhibitions for Lucian Freud, Piet Mondrian and Rosa Bonheur
When John Tenniel drew the grumpy Gryphon in ‘Alice's Adventures in Wonderland’, he may have had a real heraldic monster in mind
Christianity, Judaism and Islam shared a visual language on the Iberian peninsula – but it was a fragile balance at the best of times
The photographer recorded life in New York for 70 years without receiving the same acclaim as her male contemporaries, but that seems to be changing
The journalist and author Charlotte Higgins talks to Sophie Barling about the three works of art that mean the most to her
The architect who created some of the most memorable buildings of the last century and was a major influence on urban policy in Britain has died at the age of 88
Plus: TEFAF and Salon du Dessin have been postponed, bell hooks (1952–2021), and more of the week’s top stories
Like many of the most notorious trials of modern times, Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial has been summed up by a skilful courtroom sketch artist
The German director brought fairy tales to gorgeous, animated life with her silhouette films – the earliest of which is as remarkable now as it was in 1926
US museums have long relied on wealthy individuals, but the sources of some of that wealth makes this increasingly untenable
Max Norman visits the very peculiar home of an eccentric count who tried to derive electricity from vegetables
The Lahore-born painter keeps his spacious New York studio scrupulously clean and tidy – but he’ll never sleep in it again, all the same
When it came to painting the industrial north-west, Stockport-born Alan Lowndes could hold his own
The artist’s commercial cat illustrations were hugely popular in his lifetime, but his series of psychedelic kitties have attracted rather more serious attention
The designer’s favourite museum is the Wallace Collection, so it’s no wonder her clothes are full of flourishes from Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard
In the course of her adventures in abstraction, the artist seemed determined to test herself in every available medium
The museum devoted to the history of the Paris is itself an important part of that history – so it’s a relief that so many of its quirks remain
The gallerist Kelani Nichole and Jessica Oralkan, co-founder of a digital museum for collectors, discuss how new technologies are transforming collecting
Plus: Billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt surrenders 180 looted artefacts
The Dickensian illustrator John Leech would have been the ideal artist to capture the spirit of Downing Street festivities – fictional or otherwise
The artist’s pampered pooch was often seen as an alter ego for the ‘pugnacious’ man himself
Clara Blume, a cultural diplomat for Austria, and the US artist and programmer Lauren Lee McCarthy talk to Gabrielle Schwarz about the future of big tech
