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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

Earthenware, gold jewellery, stone carvings and other gems from Korea reign supreme at the Royal Palace in Dresden

Though often thought of as a shy character, Munch painted a wide network of friends and peers, as this show in London attests

Humans have long depicted the sea in wildly different ways, as this show at the Sainsbury Centre makes clear

The Buffalo AKG celebrates a restlessly experimental artist who was at the heart of New York’s avant-garde in the 1970s and ’80s

UK museums are hamstrung by outdated laws around restitution. It’s time for politicians to end the impasse and give them greater autonomy over their collections

Women have often been thought susceptible to demonic influence, and creativity can be seen as a form of possession – notions reclaimed by artists in ingenious ways

If AI is treated as little more than a fashionable selling point, then its potential to create genuinely innovative art may be lost