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Acquisitions of the Month: February 2019
A Peter Doig landscape, a Banksy banknote, and a rare Rembrandt have entered public collections recently
The best preserved Roman ruins in France now have a museum to match
The new Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes makes the most of the city’s classical past
What’s in store at the Armory Show 2019
A tribute to Robert Morris stands out among the displays of modern and contemporary art at this year’s fair
‘Robert Ryman gave us a lot to look at’
The painter’s commitment to white taught us new things about colour and about painting itself
How the Africa Museum is facing up to Belgium’s colonial past
The museum founded by Leopold II has reopened after a five-year closure and rethought all its displays. Has it gone far enough?
Part of the fabric – draped cloth and diaphanous veils in Renaissance art
How Italian painters and sculptors made clothing conceal and reveal the human form
In blindness, Sargy Mann found new ways to picture the world
After losing his sight, the British painter drew on touch, memory and imagination to continue his work
The disadvantages of being a woman artist haven’t yet disappeared
The under-representation of women by commercial art galleries helps depress their prices. How can this change?
Mapping a new art world order
What are the key ingredients for success, and what role do Western traditions play, in emerging art scenes and markets?
Forty years on – the Site Gallery celebrates a significant birthday
The Sheffield gallery’s show of works by Susan Hiller, Georgina Starr and Elizabeth Price takes a reflective turn
A wacky Wunderkammer in Los Angeles
The Museum of Jurassic Technology is full of natural and man-made curiosities that inspire genuine wonder
Could federal museums be better prepared for US government shutdowns?
Federal museums were closed for more than a month during the recent shutdown. What can they do to protect themselves in the future?
The Year of Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum
The museum’s director, Taco Dibbits, is making the most of the most comprehensive collection of Rembrandts in the world
How relevant is Ruskin today?
The bicentenary of the great Victorian critic’s birth is an occasion to consider how well his ideas have stood the test of time
Shining a spotlight on sculpture in the UK
With an ambitious digitisation project, Art UK aims to foster appreciation of an art form that is sometimes overlooked
Lagos is a better home for the Lander stool than London
The rare Yoruba artefact would mean more in a new museum in Lagos than it does in storage at the British Museum
Paintings suffer from breakouts, too – but what is ‘art acne’?
It’s not just the Old Masters that get spots – small bumps have started to erupt on modern paintings
Elizabeth Price cuts through the muddle of the digital world
The Turner Prize-winning artist explains why she finds digital flotsam and jetsam so fascinating
Have printed auction catalogues had their day?
As auction houses and galleries branch out into magazines, videos and other media, is the traditional catalogue becoming obsolete?
Pontormo pays a visit to the Getty
The Florentine painter’s Visitation is at the centre of this small but spellbinding display
This majestic mosque stands out in the city of a thousand minarets
The ancient mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun deserves to be much better known
Painstakingly perfect and utterly peculiar – the drawings of Jean-Jacques Lequeu
The French draughtsman’s fantasies seem as bizarre today as they did 200 years ago
The art of rocks, ruins and ruptured landscapes
John Ruskin, Paul Nash and a host of more recent artists have found geology a rich seam to mine
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