Celebrated abroad, but little known at home, Caspar van Wittel more or less singlehandedly invented view painting
The city is taking pains to address all aspects – both good and bad – of the legendary design school’s history
The status of performance may be on the up, but its place in the art market is still precarious
The Lombard Haggadah is a precious relic and the earliest known Italian guide to the Passover Seder
Grayson Perry’s Brexit vases and Tarsila do Amaral’s moon painting have entered public collections recently
Het Schip and other buildings of this early 20th-century movement are both hyper-modern and curiously medieval
Goss experiments with traditional painting techniques to depict scenes of everyday life with a dreamlike twist
The new arrival at Hudson Yards unites the performing and visual arts under one $500m roof
The status of the Byzantine church turned mosque turned museum shows no sign of being settled – but perhaps it shouldn’t be
A catalogue of the National Gallery’s 18th-century French paintings points to past peculiarities of British taste
For all the limitations of translation, it’s good to see artists and museums trying to cross language barriers
The late British painter was influenced by Bonnard and Matisse – and had to hide her work from her artist husband, Roger
The Iranian-born sculptor gets his first retrospective in his adopted home country of America
Memories of his life in Switzerland pervade the paintings of Antonio Ligabue, who was expelled from the country in 1919
The mystery of aesthetic experience is perhaps even greater than that of the human brain
Ed Vaizey and Michael Hall debate whether politicians should relocate for good when the Palace of Westminster closes for repairs
The photographer’s formally composed, sometimes graphic work is still hard to pin down
Recent layoffs by Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst suggest factory-style set-ups may be a thing of the past
The photographer’s survey of the British at home and abroad takes on a suitably surreal air at the National Portrait Gallery
After flirting with Fauvism and other French modes in Paris, the painter brought home a dazzling palette – only to bottle it later on
The Swiss spiritualist used drawings to diagnose patients, but her works are now regarded as art
An exhibition devoted to Krishna Reddy and awards for emerging Indian artists are among recent highlights in the city
A bucolic Dutch scene and a paper cut-out poppy are among the highlights of the fair in Paris
Science, art and natural history are intertwined in the Lister family’s monumental Historiae Conchyliorum
