Notre Dame is to reopen, the Frick Collection is returning to Fifth Avenue and Scotland celebrates a pair of new or improved institutions
A leading member of the Arte Povera movement, the artist stood out among his peers for his wit, imagination and interest in elemental forces
The marking of two seminal movements and a year-long celebration of Caspar David Friedrich combine scholarly heft with popular appeal
An exhibition at the Cinémathèque française doesn’t shy away from the film-maker’s political side
Work by the artist who painted herself as a sex goddess sits uneasily within the category of feminist art – and is all the better for being discomforting
Christine Sciacca of the Walters Art Museum explains how a processional icon of surprisingly modern design was made and what it means
New features by Steve McQueen, Kelly Reichardt and Joshua Oppenheimer will give art lovers plenty to get excited about
A newly attributed Rembrandt failed to hit the heights at Sotheby’s, but Pietro Lorenzetti pushed up the bidding in Paris
Plus: the Academy of Arts in Berlin warns against violations of civil liberties in Germany and the Met returns 14 trafficked artefacts to Cambodia and Thailand
Olivia Swarthout has turned her hit social media accounts about medieval marginalia into a book. After recent digital disruptions, paper seems like an increasingly safe bet
Eva Green steals every scene in the new version of Alexandre Dumas’s novel – but the new film is just the latest in a long line of swashbuckling adaptations
Poster art has become a crucial part of the experience provided by more creative eateries
Plus: the new president of Argentina has abolished the ministry of culture | and Notre-Dame is to reopen in December 2024
Far from being a toy, the Uppark doll’s house was designed as an instruction manual in three-dimensional form
The Wellcome Collection’s sprawling show has a lot in common with a busy department store and proves that the beauty industry can be an exhausting business
The artist painted countless variations of a white square, but repetitive strain was never really an issue
The retouching of Diana Cecil’s portrait has drawn comparisons with the enhancements of Kylie Jenner – but it says more about changing beauty standards
From a festive snapshot to a paper angel, we’ve picked four objects that make up the perfect Christmas day
The cathedral’s glittering 19th-century reliquaries are among the treasures that have taken up temporary residence at the Louvre
An exhibition at RIBA reveals how, in the 1960s, Architectural Review took a radical stand for planning that focused on people
The Japanese artist is the latest to take on the prestigious commission to design the vineyard's label, it was announced today
The National Gallery in London presents the first major exhibition to be dedicated to the often-overlooked artist
Mediocre results for the November auctions in New York suggest that the auction-houses have put too many eggs in the same kind of basket
From snapshots of Martin Luther King Jr. to a mural commemorating the Peterloo massacre, we look at four objects that speak of the long struggle for civil rights
