Kevin Dumouchelle of the National Museum of African Art explains what a fearsome 19th-century ceremonial mask meant to its makers in Côte d’Ivoire
The Paris event celebrating art from around the world returns this autumn with a new focus on modern and contemporary work
Plus: open letter criticises Chinese interference in French museums, and Las Vegas is to get an art museum
A Madonna of the Cherries by Quentin Metsys and a very rare sketchbook by Caspar David Friedrich are among the most important works to have entered public collections in the last month
Undeterred by a security tag on her ankle, the convicted con artist is taking to the small screen for Dancing with the Stars
The two years the artist spent in Arles and Saint-Rémy in the south of France are the focus of this exhibition at the National Gallery in London
The first exhibition of de Vlaminck’s work in Germany since his death in 1958 demonstrates his remarkable knack for intensely colourful landscapes
The rich visual history of gameboards since the mid 18th century is celebrated in this show, which also highlights how abstract art influenced game design
An exhibition in Washington, D.C. displays 130 works by the leading lights of Impressionism, and zooms in on how photography shaped the movement
The Puerto Rican curator, writer and director of a New York public art programme tells Apollo about the creative potential of cuteness
The co-founders of Ishkar tell Apollo about collaborating with artisans in conflict zones to keep heritage craft skills alive
The social historian who bought the David Parr House in Cambridge finds herself drawn to fantastical interiors in unexpected settings
Recent conservation efforts have led to new discoveries of stunning interiors and wall paintings that also tell us more about everyday life in the city
When it comes to conjuring the uncanny atmosphere and impossible logic of dreams, the Czech film-maker has few equals
This year’s list celebrates the most talented young people making work that blurs the line between art and craft
In 18th-century France, an emerging consumer society created a new kind of buyer and encouraged artists to look to the short-term
A new report by Historic England claims that investing in heritage will boost the economies of struggling English towns – but how reliable are the means of measurement?
Hettie Judah considers how artists such as Tracey Emin and Kiki Smith have represented the sacred bond between women and their cats
An art collection assembled by a ‘Dodo-ologist’ is heading to auction, but not everyone has had the same level of enthusiasm for the bird
Plus: British museum shortlists five architects for major refurbishment, and the art historian David Anfam has died at the age of 69
Public commissions during the period known as the American Renaissance focused heavily on the human figure
The American artist’s monumental works, often made from found materials, get a suitably spacious setting at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin
Italian Old Masters take up temporary residence at the Jacquemart-André in Paris this month
A century after André Breton wrote the first Surrealist Manifesto in Paris, the avant-garde movement is being celebrated in its home city
