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Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance
The practice of concealing portraits behind sliding covers or in puzzle-laden boxes is being unpacked in an unusual exhibition at the Met
Camille Claudel
The Getty Center is celebrating one of the most precociously gifted sculptors of the late 19th century
The Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles: Exchanges between China and France in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Beijing’s Palace Museum explores 200 years of diplomacy through more than 150 artworks and objects
Nicholas Cullinan appointed director of the British Museum
The director of the National Portrait Gallery will take up his post at the troubled museum in the summer
How to eat beans in the baroque style
A rustic painting by Annibale Carracci highlights how the act of eating in art has long been tied to class and status
The French collectors prizing provenance over glitz
Books and manuscripts, 18th-century furniture and Old Master drawings are driving a thriving art market in France
The Flemish Masters whose striking sketches still draw the eye
An exhibition at the Ashmolean suggests that for Rubens and his peers, graphite, ink and chalk were not simply preparatory tools but a means of reinventing matter
What’s next for the Met?
As the Metropolitan Museum of Art enters a new era, its past decisions are still sending ripples into the present, so what does the future hold?
The week in art news – the Met hires its first head of provenance
Plus: Denver Art Museum returns 11 more artefacts to Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam and some Damien Hirst sculptures may be more recently made than they seem
Peter Blake’s can-do attitude
The godfather of Pop has designed a range of Budweiser cans – and he’s not the only creative type who has taken to drink
Wilhelm Sasnal: Painting as Prop
The Polish artist’s paintings inspired by famous works and made for an upcoming film get star billing at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam
Art without Heroes: Mingei
The William Morris Gallery in London is a fitting host for works by Japanese makers inspired by the Art and Crafts movement
Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings
Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens are known primarily for their virtuosic large-scale paintings, but both were also highly skilled draughtsman
Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism
The Musée d’Orsay demonstrates how far the work of Monet, Morisot, Renoir and co. has come since the art establishment shunned it 150 years ago
Martin Boyce keeps his distance
In the Turner Prize-winner’s first major show in Scotland in two decades, his sculptures are best viewed at something of a remove
Four things to see: Holi
As Hindu communities around the world celebrate Holi, we look at four artworks that depict this vibrantly colourful festival
Lustre for life – the Huguenot refugees whose silver still shines
Fleeing persecution in France, thousands of Protestant silversmiths set up shop around Europe – and London attracted many of the most skilful
Rembrandt’s sorrowful Jeremiah shows the painter at his best
Koen Bulckens of the Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp explains what makes the painter’s portrait of ‘the weeping prophet’ such an emotional tour de force
How the nine-to-five gave artists ways to make a living
Far from hindering budding Barbara Krugers and Andy Warhols, day jobs have sometimes helped the creative process
Dealers draw together for Salon du Dessin
There are plenty of new discoveries to be made at the Paris fair focused on fine draughtsmanship
Roger Hilton’s appetite for destruction
The painter’s desire for food and drink can be traced throughout a collection of obsessive shopping lists dotted with drawings
How to revive your gothic chapel
Joe Tilson’s stained-glass window in Midlothian was one of his last works and suffuses a 15th-century place of worship with just a hint of grooviness
In the studio with… Leilah Babirye
The Ugandan-born artist treats her sculpture studio as a strict place of work – except for the occasional glass of Japanese whisky
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