Half a century in the making, the Brera's dedicated home for a fine collection of 20th-century art lacks architectural coherence
With new leadership and restored rooms that haven’t looked this good since the Ancien Régime, the palace is entering a new golden era
Plus: chair of National Endowment for the Humanities steps down after presidential pressure and far-right Greek MP arrested after allegedly vandalising art in National Gallery
The club has announced plans to build the biggest football stadium in the world, but can a piece of architecture really solve its ongoing identity crisis?
Works by Fernand Léger and the artists he influenced form the basis of a riotously colourful show in Luxembourg
The Albertina puts the British artist’s debt to Old Masters and Christian iconography in the spotlight
The American painter’s wit is on display in this retrospective in San Francisco, which includes several copies of works by his favourite artists
In private, the French writer was a skilled draughtsman of Gothic castles and fantastical creatures
On Pi Day, the annual celebration of the ever-fascinating mathematical constant, we round up four artworks that make the most out of the humble circle
The Isokon Building has become an architectural icon, but its own history is full of scandal and Central European emigrés
A large painting of three boys in the water does not readily disclose its secrets – but perhaps that is precisely the point
The American artist explains how he looks to his own past to create his devilishly inventive films, paintings and installations
A new regulation on the import of cultural goods into the EU is likely to have unintended consequences for dealers
William Andrews Nesfield was a military man who designed elaborate schemes that sum up what people mean when they talk about Victorian formal gardens
The Florence museum’s change to its ticketing system may well result in increased waiting times for visitors. But is queuing really such an ordeal?
Plus: Bernd Ebert appointed director of the Dresden State Paintings Collections and long-lost Brueghel found in Dutch museum
Earthenware, gold jewellery, stone carvings and other gems from Korea reign supreme at the Royal Palace in Dresden
Though often thought of as a shy character, Munch painted a wide network of friends and peers, as this show in London attests
Humans have long depicted the sea in wildly different ways, as this show at the Sainsbury Centre makes clear
The Buffalo AKG celebrates a restlessly experimental artist who was at the heart of New York’s avant-garde in the 1970s and ’80s
While museums are desperate to stop climate actions involving works of art, a gallery in London has put defaced paintings front and centre, tomato soup and all
On the 260th anniversary of the birth of the man who took the first photo, here are four works that highlight bold approaches to photography
While other events are contracting, this New York mainstay remains a force to be reckoned with
The artist has been making installations about bees for years. His apian interests are now the subject of an exhibition at the World Museum
