The weird lighting in the artist’s studio sometimes makes her feel like she’s in tropical fish tank, but her dog Mary makes sure she gets out for walks every day
The luxury conglomerate led by the French tycoon presented a Caillebotte to the Musée d’Orsay this week, but that didn’t stop him being denounced by pension protesters
Plus: UNESCO puts Odesa on its list of endangered sites and the fashion designer Paco Rabanne has died at the age of 88
The Louisiana Museum of Art offers a rare opportunity to see works spanning the entirety of the American artist’s career
A series of rarely exhibited woodblock prints by the late Brazilian artist go on show at the Art Institute of Chicago
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam brings together more than 28 masterpieces in the biggest ever presentation of the painter’s work
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford unearths the mysteries of the Bronze Age civilisation in Crete
A first for the Frick and a Caillebotte at the Musée d'Orsay are among the most important works to enter museum collections this month
The threats to the art fair have been piling up for years. So what's pushed it over the edge?
Plans to plonk a massive office block on top of the station’s glass roof are as dreadful as they sound
Are collectors less interested than they used to be, or is the trade showing a lack of imagination? Five experts weigh in.
The couple’s apartment in New York contains Chinese antiquities of impeccable provenance, as well as photographs of illustrious forebears
The French-Algerian artist explains her fascination with the activism of the 1960s and why, for her, the personal really is political
The Worshipful Company of Vintners still provides a very convivial welcome
A new library at Magdalene College and a dining hall at Homerton make the most of modern craftsmanship
On the 300th anniversary of his death, the architect’s fame remains unassailable – but the character of the man is more contested than ever, writes Matthew Walker
The French national library's exceptional collections now have the setting they deserve
Blockbuster shows and occasional auction records can seem at odds with the lukewarm interest from collectors
Robert O’Byrne reads between the lines of the itemised contents of great Irish houses
David Young Kim’s ingenious study of grounds and figures takes the reader on an unfamiliar journey through familiar territory
Robert Mintz of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco explains how tensions between tigers and magpies in Korean folk tales made their way on to a porcelain vase
Eero Saarinen’s marriage to the publicist Aline Louchheim tells us a lot about how the architect made his name
In Turin, traces of ancient Egypt are never far away, which makes it a welcoming place for contemporary artists with a historical bent
The painter’s close friendship with the Wertheimers is quite evident in the many portraits he made of them all
