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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

At the Barbican, imperious, often monumental statues by Huma Bhabha are paired with the figures of Alberto Giacometti to unsettling effect

In Berlin, a delicate watercolour by Paul Klee is the focus of a display exploring what the work meant to Walter Benjamin

This show at the Met celebrates more than two centuries of Black apparel – and remembers the hardships endured by even the nattiest of dressers

Work by Gerhard Richter and a soundscape by Arvo Pärt are accompanied by more than 700 years of German and Estonian art

The French artist modelled for Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and others, but the women she painted herself are afforded much more agency

Japan’s support of its artisans shows how highly it views its cultural heritage, but the same isn’t always true of the rest of the world

Reports of looting at the Sudan National Museum were confirmed last month as government forces retook Khartoum. The losses are still being reckoned