Two works from the private collection of renowned New York dealer Herman Schickman hit the auction block today after being loaned and lost from the Met's collection

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Van Dyck’s portrait of a princess bride to a rare painting by a Brazilian Modernist

Still Life With Mackerel demonstrates the French 18th-century artist's virtuosity in the genre

Jump aboard Tauba Auerbach's dazzling fireboat for the Public Art Fund and then get lost in a concrete utopia at MoMA

A show co-organised with the dealer Nicholas Hall demonstrates the endlessly exciting possibilities of blending the old and the new

New technology is shedding light on an Old Master as the prolific, multi-talented artist enjoys a renaissance

The major loan show is a double whammy in the quality of the works presented and its popularity

Self-portrait as Saint Catherine, another woman who resisted, achieves record price for the artist

Luca Padulli has been amassing the treasure trove of works at auction over the last 17 years, sources say

Auction of the late art critic’s collection inspires sadness­—but excitement too

All eyes are on Gentileschi’s $25m Danaë, but some other works deserve collectors’ attention too

The Dutch picture depicts a wealthy burgher’s child dispensing alms to a beggar boy and sold for a record $4.4m at auction last year

Opinionated and fearless, the English art critic, who has died aged 84, was never, ever dull

The small oil on board sold for $870,000—1,000 times its high estimate—and is suspected to be part of the artist’s earliest series on the Five Senses, made while he was still a student