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‘The world was better because Okwui was around, fighting for what he believed’
Okwui Enwezor was not just an influential curator, but one of the most important public intellectuals of our time
An elegy for Notre-Dame, in words and pictures
The great Gothic cathedral has inspired innumerable artists and writers over the centuries
Sheela Gowda shows her extraordinary works made out of everyday materials in Milan
The artist’s installations seem completely at home in the HangarBicocca
Little Britain – the Elizabethan passion for portrait miniatures
Flaunted in public and pored over in private, the portraits of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver encapsulate their age
Julian Schnabel makes us see through Van Gogh’s eyes – At Eternity’s Gate reviewed
The film tries to imagine what being the painter was like – the results are as stressful, and appealing, as you might expect
Discovering an underwater trove of gifts to the gods
An ancient ceremonial site at Lake Titicaca offers a glimpse into the lives and faith of a pre-Inca people
The Dutchman who shaped our view of Italy
Celebrated abroad, but little known at home, Caspar van Wittel more or less singlehandedly invented view painting
‘People have to be reminded that the Bauhaus started here’ – inside the new Bauhaus Museum in Weimar
The city is taking pains to address all aspects – both good and bad – of the legendary design school’s history
A chance to see a rare Hebrew manuscript made in medieval Milan
The Lombard Haggadah is a precious relic and the earliest known Italian guide to the Passover Seder
Acquisitions of the Month: March 2019
Grayson Perry’s Brexit vases and Tarsila do Amaral’s moon painting have entered public collections recently
Schip shape – the infectiously bizarre style of the Amsterdam School
Het Schip and other buildings of this early 20th-century movement are both hyper-modern and curiously medieval
Flooded streets and cars at sea – the watery world of Nick Goss
Goss experiments with traditional painting techniques to depict scenes of everyday life with a dreamlike twist
A barnstorming debut for the Shed
The new arrival at Hudson Yards unites the performing and visual arts under one $500m roof
Church, mosque and museum – the Hagia Sophia could be all things to all people
The status of the Byzantine church turned mosque turned museum shows no sign of being settled – but perhaps it shouldn’t be
Channel crossings – Britain’s patchy history of collecting French art
A catalogue of the National Gallery’s 18th-century French paintings points to past peculiarities of British taste
Adios to the monoglot museum
For all the limitations of translation, it’s good to see artists and museums trying to cross language barriers
‘Wry humour and a clarity that belied her years’ – remembering Rose Hilton
The late British painter was influenced by Bonnard and Matisse – and had to hide her work from her artist husband, Roger
Siah Armajani’s language of exile
The Iranian-born sculptor gets his first retrospective in his adopted home country of America
The idiosyncratic painter hailed as the Swiss Van Gogh
Memories of his life in Switzerland pervade the paintings of Antonio Ligabue, who was expelled from the country in 1919
Can neuroscience really tell us much about why we look at art?
The mystery of aesthetic experience is perhaps even greater than that of the human brain
Should the Houses of Parliament be turned into a museum?
Ed Vaizey and Michael Hall debate whether politicians should relocate for good when the Palace of Westminster closes for repairs
Seeing past the shock value of Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs
The photographer’s formally composed, sometimes graphic work is still hard to pin down
Is the era of superstar artists with scores of assistants coming to an end?
Recent layoffs by Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst suggest factory-style set-ups may be a thing of the past
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Performance art costs a lot to produce – but can it make money, too?
The status of performance may be on the up, but its place in the art market is still precarious