Highlights of 2018 include Thomas Cole’s paintings at the Met and Njideka Akunyili Crosby's mural at MoCA
The US is withdrawing from UNESCO (again) at the end of 2018. Has this international body outlived its usefulness?
Ralph Rugoff, the director of the Hayward Gallery, explains what the revamped brutalist building has to offer artists and audiences
The Louvre Abu Dhabi is undeniably impressive, but can it succeed in becoming the universal museum it wants to be?
From post-war German art at Harvard to Leonardo at the Worcester Art Museum, here are some gems beyond the blockbuster exhibitions
Highlights of 2018 include Victorian photographers, Egyptian influences, and models from Kinshasa
European highlights for 2018 include three promising young artists and Palermo’s eco-focused edition of Manifesta
Prominent exhibitions in 2018 will explore how art challenges power and how far it can transform the world
Masterpieces by Titian, Dürer, and Van Dyck return to London from their far-flung homes, and pottery comes to Cambridge
Highlights of 2018 include violent visions in Dulwich, Bruegel in Vienna, and T.S. Eliot at Turner Contemporary
The Wallace Collection celebrates the 200th anniversary of its founder’s birth
The cherry has come a long way over the centuries – as medieval badges, Renaissance paintings, and a video by Beyoncé reveal
The dictator and his wife lived in luxury at their Spring Palace – with a golden bathroom and the only colour TV in Romania
The wacky Christmas decorations installed in London’s leading museums
Thomas Marks talks to the head of post-war and contemporary art at Bonhams about how the market is shaping up for 2018
Art news daily: 21 December
The Alton Estate in London is at risk from proposals that will ruin the architecture and destroy social housing
Your chance to win 'Leonard Rosoman' by Tanya Harrod (Royal Academy of Arts)
The V&A has launched a new uniform – but twitter users reckon the swag would look better at a garden centre
Many of the methods invented by Roman glassmakers are still in use today
Art news daily: 20 December
A new digital resource holds a trove of information and will make furniture history more widely accessible
The works of the Arte Povera artist playfully resist our expectations of what sculpture should be
A cheap date with Martin Parr, Damien Hirst CBE (or not), and a very meaty recipe for mince pies
