What happened to artefacts in museums before they went on display? A lively new study gives us the fuller picture
The sculptor used vivid hues sparingly and to powerful effect – an aspect of her work that has eluded critical attention until now
Michael Hall’s new book explores the role played by queer culture in preserving country houses for the public
The Spanish baroque master’s magnetic paintings get their moment in the London sun
Barnaby Phillips’s new book follows the many twists and turns of the royal treasures Britain took from the Asante kingdom
The C Comics drawn by the artist with words by New York School writers are a call to unconformity
Art historians have often looked down on 19th-century fashion, but a new study shows that artists of the 1820s and ’30s were heavily influenced by the early days of the luxury industry
The singular paintings of one of the unshowier School of London painters are ripe for discovery
While Capability Brown achieved a natural look with great artifice in England, French landscape gardens were overtly experimental fantasies
A revelatory exhibition at the Prado explores a neglected period of cultural and artistic exchange during the 14th century
Peter Burke’s cultural history of the connoisseur considers the complex past and current relevance of a strangely elusive figure
The New Museum has reopened with an extravaganza of a show that seems more excited than afraid about the blurring of lines between man and machine
Asta Nørregaard was part of a coterie of women artists at the forefront of progressive artistic and social movements in late 19th-century Norway but, above all, she was determined to paint as she pleased
The Berlin-based dealer Paul Cassirer introduced French Impressionism to German collectors and museums before doing the same for the German artists of his day
Burdened by poor health in later life, the artist would have been forgiven for slowing down – but there was no stopping him
Anti-German sentiment during the First World War meant that German-born Jewish collectors such as Ludwig Mond and the Beit brothers have little name-recognition in Britain today
The New York Historical tries to picture everyday life in Dutch-owned New York, with varying degrees of success
The lives of Benedictine monks and nuns have much to teach us, if a display of medieval and contemporary art at the Sainsbury Centre is anything to go by
A seductive exhibition in Basel explores the variety of sexual identities, and how artists have depicted them over the centuries
Andrew Durbin’s joint biography of these fascinating artists shows that each is worth a book of their own
This snapshot of contemporary American art is undoubtedly messy and unintentionally revealing
There’s plenty of arresting art this year, but the most memorable might be Gabrielle Goliath’s work for the cancelled South Africa pavlion
The Chinese American artist excelled at stagy scenes of San Francisco’s Chinatown as well as moody New York nocturnes
The Met presents a new side of the Old Master by highlighting the influence of women on his work
