The Barbican survey's biographical focus detracts from the fervent energy of the paintings themselves
After going AWOL for several days, Grayson Perry’s cat has been reunited with the artist. Hooray!
The US is planning to eliminate 'like-kind' exchanges for artworks, a key tax deferral tool for the art trade
An exhibition at the O2 in London is as carefully stage managed as anything Prince put on during his lifetime
Ottomanism is in and modernism is out – as the state of three mosques shows
Should the French government be launching a heritage lottery fund when the UK version is in decline?
The city’s ethnographic museum has been reimagined to explain how its exceptional collections migrated to the city
Jenny Uglow’s biography brings the writer and artist’s love of contradictions to the fore
The winners of this year's Apollo Awards - which celebrate great achievements of the art and museum worlds - were announced at a ceremony in London on Tuesday
The Imperial War Museum's 'Age of Terror' exhibition is important, but fails to ask some key questions
Christie’s pulled out all the stops for the sale of 'Salvator Mundi' – and its efforts have more than paid off
Until recently, experts were unsure where this extraordinary portrait bust of Napoleon's brother-in-law had ended up, or whether it had survived at all
Among the treasures of St Cuthbert in Durham are several of the most remarkable medieval objects to be seen anywhere
The organisation's new director general must find a way to promote diplomacy following the US's withdrawal
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's rare and inventive portraits are on display in New York after a major research and conservation project
Artists throughout the ages have painted in black and white or monochrome. What is the appeal of art without colour?
A hoard of Viking-era treasures has gone to the National Museums Scotland, while the Towner Art Gallery has secured an impressive contemporary installation
Artist Andy Holden has collaborated with his father, the ornithologist Peter Holden, on an Artangel project exploring our fascination with 'home'
Conservationists and connoisseurs needn’t be on opposing sides when discussing ivory
MoMA's 'greatest hits' are superb, of course – but are they a little too familiar?
Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald have won the commissions to paint the former U.S. president and first lady
The painter's approach to portraiture seems even more refreshing in the era of selfies
The news that Leonardo da Vinci's 'Salvator Mundi' is to be auctioned at Christie's has caused quite a stir. Why is his work so important to people?
To devote an entire show and a book exclusively to artists’ images of death – and nothing else – seems profoundly odd
