After a mid-century dip in enthusiasm, the demand for exceptional pieces of design seems irrepressible
The painter is in no need of rediscovery at home, but her painstaking depictions of everyday life deserve to be better known abroad
Plus: artists in Berlin protest against funding requirement to sign anti-Semitism clause | and Freeman’s and Hindman auction houses are to merge
When it comes to miniatures, size doesn’t matter, but a show of historic and contemporary works should spark a bigger colonial conversation
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
The annual barometer of emerging talent in the UK returns to the Camden Art Centre
The Tokyo National Museum presents the works of the leading Edo-period artist and artisan
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
Fancy Kendall's Zippo, or one of Shiv's suits? Now's your chance, with HBO auctioning off the Roy family's paraphernalia
Stephanie Barczewski’s book considers how stately homes have evolved according to the needs of their owners and wider changes in society
Diane Wolfthal discusses the dizzying visions of heaven and hell to be found in a medieval prayer book at the Morgan Library
With Paris preparing to play host, Neom remaining elusive and London landmarks undergoing major changes, 2024 will be nothing if not interesting
The Galleria Borghese looks at what Peter Paul Rubens learnt from the classical past
Jan Christian Sepp’s guide to the visual and geological properties of marble will whet the appetite of the modern readers too
A briny, brawny late work by Maine’s favourite modernist finds strength in stoic silence
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
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
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
The Estorick Collection charts the Italian painter’s career from her days as an artist’s model to her luminous still lifes
Architectural photographs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. reveal a meeting of Indigenous and colonial styles
In Edinburgh, the Royal Scottish Academy is seeing in the new year with its annual display of Turner’s watercolours
The Stedelijk Museum looks at how the futuristic philosophy of Nikolai Fyodorov left its mark on the arts at the turn of the 20th century
Henning Hoesch is a winemaker with a habit of making distinctions that extends to his collection of Old Master drawings
Notre Dame is to reopen, the Frick Collection is returning to Fifth Avenue and Scotland celebrates a pair of new or improved institutions
