Gainsborough’s House presents work by three pioneers of British landscape painting – including at least one masterpiece not seen in public since the 18th century
See how this one-woman institution brought the avant-garde across the Channel and transformed British art in the process
Forty paintings from a a series charting the adventures of the Hindu deity Rama are reunited at the Cleveland Museum of Art
New works inspired by Kensington Gardens play havoc with traditional conceptions of landscape painting – and the results are thrilling
The V&A hopes its new branch in east London is an answer to how to get younger, more diverse audiences through the door. But can such efforts survive in a changing political landscape?
Plus: Greece has passed a law to combat crimes against cultural property, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has sold the artist’s former home to a Florida resort
The famous spiced anchovy paste, now tragically discontinued, was a condiment that provided a feast for the eyes and the tastebuds
Very few works on paper from the Low Countries before 1600 have survived – which makes this exhibition at the British Museum a top-drawer show
MoMA presents hundreds of works by the modernist who laid the ground for conceptual art and played a lot of chess along the way
The National Gallery of Ireland sets the artist’s visionary paintings and prints alongside work by his peers
This exhibition at the Louvre suggests the two sculptors had a shared mission despite living centuries apart
A world-class collection gets a revealing but all-too-rare moment in the spotlight
The artist was admired by the likes of Frederick Douglass and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in her lifetime, but after a period of fame she sank into obscurity – and this landmark survey is long overdue
The artist’s writhing sculptures have invaded unusual spaces, from central London to the set of ‘Wuthering Heights’
Picasso’s influence on the American artist is in evidence in these 100 paintings, sculptures and painted objects
A major travelling survey of the Guyanese-British artist opens in its third and last version in London
The painter and engraver who counted Bosch, Dürer and Michelangelo among his admirers is the subject of this exhibition at the Louvre
The opening of this show in Antwerp, which celebrates the power of colour, is sure to be a red-letter day for lovers of scarlet and vermilion
From her shoe hat to her skeleton dress, the couturier’s playful creations show why she felt so at home with the avant-garde artists of her day
Relooted is a video game that allows players to pull off heists and reclaim artefacts – and doubles up as a short history of African art
Caravaggio’s portrait of a future Pope and a mannerist painting for the Met are among the most important works to have entered public collections recently
A 15th-century painting of Saint Jerome that has been worn away by devotional kisses reminds Rakewell of other works that have been loved not wisely but too well
The Fitzwilliam Museum bottles the painter’s brilliance in 11 works that reveal his growing mastery over the last six decades
Lina Bo Bardi’s original MASP museum building is a masterpiece and a cleverly conceived new extension leaves it free to operate as originally intended
