The French writer and politician is widely credited as the inventor of the ‘virtual’ or ‘imaginary’ museum – but what exactly did he have in mind?
Moving-image work seems particularly suited to our increasingly online existences
The American artist fused Surrealism and Pop to create an eccentric – and highly erotic – style that was all his own
The Syrian-born, US-based artist talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about his sculptural dioramas of cities ravaged by war – and offers a message of hope for the future
A sale of volumes collected by the Assay Office over two centuries brings numerous important works to the market, despite local opposition
The director of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., on the challenges of steering the institution and looking after its staff during the Covid-19 crisis
We'll need to find ways to be together while alone during the coming weeks and months
After two decades of delays, the museum finally opened its doors at the end of February. Now, like so many others, it has had to shut again
The artist's ‘The Death of Chatterton’ was one of the most popular paintings of the 19th century, but what else did he do?
The contemporary art satellite of the Albertina was set to open last week. Visitors will find solace there, says its director, when the lockdown is over
In depicting the final journey of a fêted battleship, Turner tweaked the facts to inflate the pathos of the scene
With the whole of Italy in lockdown, the streets of Rome are empty – and the city without visitors has a strange and confusing atmosphere
A tiara fit for a queen and a portrait of a princess are among the objects not to miss at the fair this year
As the art world makes for Maastricht, it’s worth casting an eye further abroad to the full range of events and shows across the region
From a monumental mannerist canvas to a silver-and-coconut cup – more works not to miss at the fair this year
The German-born artist never stopped reinventing himself – from his gender-bending self-portraits to a film about living with cancer
An important survey of abstract Arab art throws up questions about the influences swirling around in the post-war period
A series of understated yet powerful works make clear that McQueen is as effective in the gallery as in the cinema
For just one week the full set of surviving tapestries commissioned by Pope Leo X could be seen in their original setting
A survey of black artists from the American South reveals how oppression and inequality couldn’t crush their creativity
A new biography reasserts the significance of the self-described ‘artist plantsman’ among his modern British peers
The artist’s feminist photomontages fill the galleries, while the house is now punctuated with her interventions – and the scent of potpourri
Potatoes orbit around barstools and beer spurts out of coasters in the whimsical worlds explored by Sigmar Polke
The world’s most significant collection of silkworm cocoons, and many other marvels of sericulture, can be found in the capital of Georgia
