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BRAFA marks the centenary of the birth of Surrealism
This year’s edition of the Brussels fair is full of dreamlike offerings from new exhibitors and stalwarts of the event alike
Getting the hump – the fine art of feasting in the Arab world
What constitutes a delicacy has changed over the centuries, but dining on camel is still a rare luxury
Boxwood miniatures, in a nutshell
William Theiss takes a close look at the pocket-sized sculptures that 15th-century pilgrims thought perfect for private reverie
French art deco is still in the ascendant in New York
After a mid-century dip in enthusiasm, the demand for exceptional pieces of design seems irrepressible
How Harriet Backer worked wonders in Norway
The painter is in no need of rediscovery at home, but her painstaking depictions of everyday life deserve to be better known abroad
In a surprise appointment, Rachida Dati is the new French culture minister
Plus: artists in Berlin protest against funding requirement to sign anti-Semitism clause | and Freeman’s and Hindman auction houses are to merge
Whose imperial majesty? – ‘South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain’ at the MK Gallery, reviewed
When it comes to miniatures, size doesn’t matter, but a show of historic and contemporary works should spark a bigger colonial conversation
New Contemporaries
The annual barometer of emerging talent in the UK returns to the Camden Art Centre
The Artistic Cosmos of Hon’ami Koetsu
The Tokyo National Museum presents the works of the leading Edo-period artist and artisan
The doctor who was devoted to Van Gogh
The painter’s final months in the care of Dr Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, a physician as interested in art as he was in medicine, were an extraordinarily productive period
Succession sparks a bidding war
Fancy Kendall’s Zippo, or one of Shiv’s suits? Now’s your chance, with HBO auctioning off the Roy family’s paraphernalia
What do English country houses tell us about the state of the nation?
Stephanie Barczewski’s book considers how stately homes have evolved according to the needs of their owners and wider changes in society
The finest hours of Catherine of Cleves
Diane Wolfthal discusses the dizzying visions of heaven and hell to be found in a medieval prayer book at the Morgan Library
The Olympic Games, a city built on sand, and a painful divorce – the year ahead in architecture
With Paris preparing to play host, Neom remaining elusive and London landmarks undergoing major changes, 2024 will be nothing if not interesting
The Touch of Pygmalion: Rubens and Sculpture in Rome
The Galleria Borghese looks at what Peter Paul Rubens learnt from the classical past
Rocks of all ages: a guide to collecting marble, reviewed
Jan Christian Sepp’s guide to the visual and geological properties of marble will whet the appetite of the modern readers too
All at sea – the anxious mariners of Marsden Hartley
A briny, brawny late work by Maine’s favourite modernist finds strength in stoic silence
The Victorian chapel designed by a high priest of colour
William Burges’s transformation of the chapel of Worcester College in Oxford doubles as an all-out assault on the senses and a scathing critique of the previous architect
The week in art news – cyber-attack sends US museums offline
Plus: Poland withdraws its Biennale submission | swingeing cuts to UK arts budgets by local councils cuts continue | and Ian Wardropper to retire as Frick director
Are the British Museum and BP made for each other?
As two British multinationals with deep imperial roots and interim CEOs partner for another ten years, perhaps birds of a feather are merely flocking together
Pasquarosa: From Muse to Painter
The Estorick Collection charts the Italian painter’s career from her days as an artist’s model to her luminous still lifes
In the Library: Latin American Architecture in Circulation
Architectural photographs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. reveal a meeting of Indigenous and colonial styles
Turner in January
In Edinburgh, the Royal Scottish Academy is seeing in the new year with its annual display of Turner’s watercolours
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The V&A is a much better home for this medieval sculpture than the Met
A 12th-century walrus ivory will head to the Met unless a UK institution can find £2m by February – but the sculpture really should stay where it is