Was the pledge to restore the cathedral in just five years a reasonable commitment or a rash promise?
The bicentenary of the founder of modern nursing has a particularly topical resonance, but how did her contemporaries regard the Lady with the Lamp?
Thomas Campbell and Adam Koszary ask whether the online experience can ever compare to being in a physical gallery
The artist discusses his plans for a new residency in Lagos, and delves into the serious mischief of his sculptures
Plus: Zarina (1937–2020), museums in Italy and Belgium set reopening dates, and more art stories from around the world
Celebrities have often performed Dr. Seuss to kids to extol the benefits of reading – but should they have rapped through the books instead?
Uffizi director Eike Schmidt discusses plans to reopen the galleries as the Italian government eases lockdown regulations
Alistair Sooke and Simon Schama take on tour-guide duties in a series of new 30-minute films. But how satisfying can the Tate on the telly really be?
An illustrated inventory made for Jean de Jullienne shows us how his paintings were displayed
The festival has put together a digital programme that invites close and contemplative attention
The fans of Borussia Mönchengladbach are to make up for closed stadiums by attending matches in the form of cardboard cutouts
The designer may not be a household name, but his work is still instantly recognisable – from passports and magazines to banknotes and bookplates
A new study focuses on the painters working outside the main artistic centres of Italy
An art lawyer considers the implications of deaccessioning works and dipping into endowment funds
The artist knew exactly how to cultivate her own image, ensuring her great success – both then and now
The week in art news: 24 April
Your favourite art magazine has been spotted in the vintage BBC comedy-drama – though always in the hands of dodgy antiques dealers
The museum makes the most of its French connections in this survey of conduct across medieval Europe and the Middle East
The novelist’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy suggestively fills in what art historians can only guess at
The discovery of the world’s oldest known piece of string shows that our Neanderthal cousins were craftier than is sometimes assumed
A new study emphasises the marriage of thought and feeling in the painter’s work
BBC Bitesize has announced that Danny Dyer and Sergio Agüero are among the celebrities joining its homeschooling programme. But who’s going to teach art?
Sequestered in a French chateau in the 1940s, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Jean Arp, Sonia Delaunay and Alberto Magnelli joined forces to create the ‘Album Grasse’
From Victorian spiritualists to contemporary practitioners, there is a long history of art – and drawing in particular – taking an interest in the unseen
