Surrealism’s most famous exponent had a profound respect for the Old Masters, according to this exhibition at the MFA Boston
More than six decades of fantastic life in plastic, from dream houses to the dolls themselves, go on display at the Design Museum in London
Turner’s depictions of the effects of industrialisation are relevant to the climate crisis today, argues a show at the artist’s house in London
Being married to the monarch was a hazardous business, but all six queens have lived on in popular memory and the artistic imagination
Still-life painting in Britain really took off in the 20th century when artists adopted a more experimental approach
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of the conceptual artist On Kawara, we look at four artworks that derive their power and meaning from data
The artist’s ability to stop time is on full display in a painting that was recently acquired by the Louvre and is now touring France
An exhibition in Venice underscores the artist’s restless imagination and shapeshifting tendencies
Peter Hujar and Paul Thek offer a lesson in the art of appreciation at Loewe’s menswear show in Paris
Midway through a major refurbishment, the Institute is still managing to thrive at a challenging time for UK museums
There really is something for every kind of collector at Treasure House Fair and London Art Week this summer
Power is set to change hands next month in Downing Street, but whether that will be enough to fix Britain’s funding of the arts is another matter
Plus: Matthew Teitelbaum, director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, is stepping down; and the art dealer Barbara Gladstone has died
Obituaries of the actor are rightly lauding his work in M*A*S*H, Don’t Look Now and JFK, but fail to mark his indelible performance as one of the leading post-Impressionists
The Mexico-based artist’s ongoing series focusing on children’s games from around the globe goes on show at the Barbican
The Morgan is celebrating its 100th birthday with an exhibition centred around its newly acquired collection of Dutch works on paper
The history of quilt-making is woven through with complex stories, as this exhibition of Canadian fabrics demonstrates
Works by four Impressionist women go on display in Dublin to celebrate 150 years since the movement was born
Drawing models in the flesh has been in and out of fashion over the centuries, but the London institution’s postgrad programme is breathing new life into the practice
In honour of the annual Fête de la Musique, which takes place this year on 21 June, we look at four objects that embody the fertile relationship between art, craft and music
An exhibition at the British Museum shows that the artist deliberately shaped his legacy by the drawings he chose to leave behind
Now 88, the Glaswegian artist is finally being fêted for her unpredictable visions of domesticity
Nancy E. Edwards of the Kimbell Art Museum explains how a magnificent tapestry by Bernard van Orley re-enacts the Battle of Pavia
This cycle of seven colossal tapestries, which plunges the viewer into the thick of a 16th-century battle, is on display in its entirety for the first time in the United States
