The artist was admired by the likes of Frederick Douglass and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in her lifetime, but after a period of fame she sank into obscurity – and this landmark survey is long overdue
From her shoe hat to her skeleton dress, the couturier’s playful creations show why she felt so at home with the avant-garde artists of her day
Looking past the strictures of genre to judge a work on its own merits can yield great rewards, as an exhibition of Michaelina Wautier’s work attests
The city has long been synonymous with finance, fashion and design, but it is increasingly banking on art too
The Shiraz grape is native to France, but it has longstanding links with Persian courtly life and culture
The painter’s townscape of the Dominican church in Vienna shows why he more than lived up to the reputation of his uncle Canaletto
The idea of the beautiful and the damned ugly is a longstanding one, but a problematic one – in art as well as life
The twists and turns of the artist’s career make for a thrilling display at Tate Modern
The French architect is famous for adding a spire to Notre-Dame, but he hit other heights too – and his misses are just as revealing
There is no shortage of material, but quality is another thing – which makes the best work command high prices and means that collectors have to get creative
From migrant journeys to gay rights in Kenya, the painter packs the vitality and violence of the world into his work
Old Master drawings form the backbone of the Paris fair, but there are lively works on paper by modern and contemporary artists, too
After soaking up influences in Norway and France, the Estonian painter brought his own form of modernism back home
Demand for the gemstone has slowed in recent years – making now an ideal time to buy these miracles of craftsmanship
Dorich House, the home and studio of the sculptor Dora Gordine, is a reminder of when Britain played host to the avant-garde
The painter was one of the most successful portraitists in Europe and should be regarded as the father of the English school of painting. So why has his reputation suffered over the years?
From Charlton Heston writhing on a scaffold in the Sistine Chapel to Kirk Douglas’s dead ringer for Van Gogh, films about painters were prestige studio fare
In Jewish tradition, Torah scrolls are often embellished with ornaments. Rarely are they as elaborate as this jewel-encrusted crown, a highlight of the V&A’s reopened Gilbert Galleries
The painter’s society portraits come to life in a well-chosen survey at the Frick
This year’s highlights include a striking portrait of Saint Jerome by Orazio Gentilschi and a new painting by Caroline Walker made especially for the fair
From sensitive portraits by Peter Hujar to Old Master paintings depicting beauty and ugliness, there’s so much to see within a day’s trip from the Maastricht fair
As the threat of armed global conflict increases, we mustn’t stop trying to protect archaeological and cultural sites
Two unrelated cases in the 1990s show how hard it was to recover stolen artefacts – and even to know that they had gone missing in the first place
The Romanian sculptor expressed his creativity and identity through food just as much as art
