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
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in the capital of Normandy, where the Vikings once ruled, is the perfect place for this painting of a wandering warrior
A celebration of the late actor’s star turn as the tormented artist in Vincente Minnelli’s biopic of 1956
The students of Moordale High have been reimagined as a cast of painted saints and sinners
A visual history of hundreds of years of veneration, satire, or the breaking of taboos moves from the Virgin Mary to Demi Moore
The BBC programme takes a playful look at changing attitudes to nudity in art – from Michelangelo’s David to modern life drawing
A gathering of some 300 drawings at the Prado is a comprehensive guide to life in the artist's cruel and chaotic world
The wooden horned head is now believed to be by an unknown artist. Questions over its attribution to Gauguin were examined in Apollo in 2009, in an article republished in full here
An attempt to steal the Magna Carta prompts Rakewell to wonder whether there is such a thing as a public-spirited heist
The Estorick Collection presents a rare exhibition of works by the Italian painter with a passion for planes
A 14th-century sketch by a travelling friar is now thought to be the earliest known drawing of the city
The Marquess of Stafford’s noble endeavour gave the public a taste of what a national collection might look like
The artist talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about how an upbringing in Egypt has shaped his work exploring gender, queer desire, politics and power
While the paintings are astonishing, the notebooks and sketches really draw you in
Henry Cole had the art of the museum cafe down to a tee. Oh for his veal cutlets!
From Fauvist paintings to fragments of the Berlin Wall – highlights of the 2020 edition of the fair
Will this painting of the Jazz Age chanteuse Marjorie Ferry seduce buyers and set a new auction record for the artist?
Tate Modern’s show of the artist’s experiments with technology suggests that TV was his favourite medium
A complete version of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays is up for sale. What is it that makes this book so desirable?
One of the inventors of conceptual art, and a towering figure on the West Coast scene, he was also a dedicated mentor to his students
The Wallace Collection’s exhibition is very welcome, but could tell us more about the two-way traffic between Indian and Western artists
The painter-novelist was one of a kind – but his influence will continue to shape the imagination of Scotland
Founded in memory of the engineer Sir Joseph Whitworth, the museum has always supported the marriage of art and industry
