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The grand gestures hiding in Parisian churches
Religious art didn’t die out in the 18th century – Parisian churches are full of large-scale baroque paintings
Has Grayson Perry’s populist approach paid off?
Art must be accessible, says Perry, but it must also make people feel included
Why are there mass protests about Moscow’s mass-produced housing?
Moscow’s Khrushchev-era apartment blocks are hardly good housing, but their residents are unlikely to get a better replacement
An artistic tour of Nashville, Tennessee
If you think Nashville is all about music, think again. The city has a host of historic buildings and house museums, and now boasts its own ‘museum hotel’
The Met appoints Daniel H. Weiss president and CEO in leadership rethink
Our daily round-up of news from the art world Daniel H. Weiss appointed president and CEO of The Met |…
The Rake’s progress: last week in gossip
The art world responds to the UK election; Michel Houellebecq discusses his ‘French Bashing’ exhibition; and is Kate Middleton a skater girl now?
Gathering dust at the Whitechapel Gallery
With its abstract qualities and unsettling symbolic significance, dust emerged as a key theme in 20th-century photography
The museum building that expresses the tragedy of Cologne
Peter Zumthor’s Kolumba is a poignant monument for a city devastated by wartime bombing
The true scale of Alighiero Boetti’s achievements
The current exhibition at the Cini Foundation in Venice has a conceptual clarity that is entirely in keeping with the Italian artist’s philosophy
How David Jones resisted the modern world
A new biography reveals an artist who, falling out of step with contemporary life, created an imaginative world of his own through art
The Louvre goes to the movies (again)
Wonder Woman now works at the Louvre… but will her curatorial credentials spare her bad reviews?
The National Gallery of Ireland enters a new era
The National Gallery of Ireland’s six-year-long refurbishment gives its Old Masters and Irish paintings a chance to shine
Mid-century Harlem through the eyes of Alice Neel
The portraits she created in and around Spanish Harlem are vivid snapshots of New York life and community
Book competition
Your chance to win ’Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting’ (Yale University Press)
Summer season kicks off in London and Brussels
London Art Week returns to St James’s and Mayfair, while Old Master fair Paris Tableau is revived – in Brussels
How Canaletto constructed a better view of Venice
The artist would move churches around, erase rooftops, and even bend the Grand Canal straight if it allowed for a more harmonious scene
The street artists getting bashed by bishops and bureaucrats
Invader and Bansky have stirred up authorities in Spain and the UK this week
Acquisitions of the month: May 2017
A Delacroix heads for Munich, and a number of major museums have significantly expanded their photography holdings
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America needs its history museums more than ever
The discovery of a noose at the National Museum of African American History and Culture is a grim justification of its existence