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This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites

The portraitist gets her first solo show in New York, featuring striking paintings of cowboys, farmers, beauty queens and Michelle Obama

Some 50 sculptures of heads, busts and bodies by the German artist are on display alongside 100 works on paper, revealing fresh insights into his process

A chance to see how the Second World War transformed American attitudes towards art, design and fashion

The National Gallery continues its bicentenary celebrations with two vast, dramatic charcoal-on-paper drawings that are rarely on display

As development agencies have become increasingly entangled with heritage projects, the end of USAID raises the question of who will fill the funding gap

The attacks on ‘degenerate’ art were brutal and shocking, but the bravery of the artists whose work was singled out should also be remembered

Archives are much more than stuffy storerooms filled with dried-out documents, and might be our best way of connecting to the past