From inventories to installation shots – Liza Kirwin discusses the crucial role of gallery records in documenting art history
This month’s highlights include paintings of Henry VIII’s favourite wife and Dorothea Tanning’s much-loved dog
The art market prizes rarity – or so they say. What, then, is behind the recent record-breaking sale of an editioned sculpture by Jeff Koons?
Celebrating the new, Middle East edition of the Apollo 40 Under 40 at the Serpentine Pavilion
Timothy Spall and Vanessa Redgrave co-star as the artist and his mother in this claustrophobic portrait of domestic dysfunction
The polymath's taste-making had much to do with his intensive study of Italian artists such as Giotto and Piero della Francesca
The painter’s once unfairly dismissed late works are full of possibilities he didn’t live long enough to explore
The view of Mount Rigi from Lake Lucerne inspired a series of great watercolours – one of which is currently under export bar in the UK
A focused display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum brings the painter’s ingenuity to the fore
As wealthy donors and corporate sponsors come under increased scrutiny, Maxwell L. Anderson and David Fleming address the future of museum funding
An exhibition about cultural destruction in modern conflicts can’t help but remind us of earlier wars
In 2015, Dario Franceschini’s modernising project heralded a newly international outlook for the Italian museum system. Is it sustainable?
A survey of the artist takes us to a land of sinister magic not so different to our own
A public high school is the perfect place to consider the flaws of America’s founding fathers
Moby-Dick is a novel suspicious of visual representation – but one that has inspired scores of illustrators and painters
An initiative spearheaded by the artist’s foundation is spreading her passion for prints across the US
Relationships between bodies – filial, friendly or romantic – are at the heart of the Lebanese artist’s paintings and drawings
A new series makes the most of the spectacle that is glass-blowing in action – and adds a competitive element
The land of the pharaohs loomed large in the imagination of the father of psychoanalysis
Museum-grown mushrooms come to market in London – while in Boston, Egyptian artefacts have been harvested for ancient yeast
The latest addition to the Menil’s ‘neighbourhood of art’ in Houston offers an expanded vision of what drawing means
Looking beyond the pyramids at Giza, royal tomb design was a more varied affair than we sometimes realise
From seaside Maine to the streets of Manhattan, Dodd’s paintings depict the world around her
With the art market crying out for definitive catalogues, a new international association has been launched to support their production
