Both British queens owned the same prayerbook, curators at Hever Castle in England have found
As the Sydney museum reopens, we look at its long history of supporting artists, and when it began to collect Indigenous art
Contemporary initiative also includes new book with contributions from more than 60 artists such as Adrian Villar Rojas, Lara Favaretto and Michael Rakowitz
The museum—set inside a Buckinghamshire country house—has opened its largest ever gallery, called the Intelligence Factory, this week
Sculpture atop the final resting place of the medieval knight and heir to Edward III has been examined by a team of researchers led by The Courtauld Institute of Art
The historic example of domestic terrorism, when white mobs killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed businesses, finally gets due recognition
Francis I of Brittany had his first wife painted over in a medieval prayer book before giving it to his new spouse, research at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum shows
Ink writing found on pottery sherds suggests the system spread into the Levant earlier than originally thought
The educational aide will be part of a forthcoming exhibition at the National Museum of American History
Tudor specialist has been widely condemned for remarks on slavery and Black Lives Matter in YouTube interview
In a special podcast episode we talk to Simon Werrett who has written a book on pyrotechnic arts in European history
In honour of Bonfire Night in the UK this podcast looks at how artists—from Whistler to Cai Guo-Qiang—have captured fireworks
A week-long festival for the 30th anniversary includes a banner of messages floating near the Brandenburg Gate
The Bay Area artist Stella Zhang was a senior at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing during the student-led protests. She has created a new work based on those memories—and the government’s efforts to silence them
A dictionary of the burial places of the English and Scottish kings and queens (and their relations)
93 works by 10 photographers track the evolution of this New York neighbourhood
Spanning 3000 years, the exhibition covers the Egyptian origins of alchemy to its influence on contemporary artists such as Koons
Tate Britain traces the driving forces and ideologies behind a 500-year history of iconoclasm
Tate Britain examines the history of those who have targeted art, from Henry VIII to the present
Constructivist-style bus garage transformed into high-tech Jewish museum in Moscow
The Wellcome Collection puts its best (false) foot forward
The perfect reference book for those of us who cannot just offhand distinguish a gambeson from a hauberk
Objects of translation and the cultural interactions of Muslims and Hindus in the late 12th and early 13th centuries
Artists, collectors, critics, museum directors and auction house executives pick their holiday books
With the view that creative outlet precedes change, Sami-Azar has begun to thaw segregationist policies that bar Iranian artists from international acclaim
It will include displays of photographs and posters, pieces of barbed wire, tools and clothes from the Gulags
A celebration of the Gilded Age couple famed for their taste and refinement
The incredible longevity of the monastery - or mosque, for a period - can be attributed to its willingness to change with the times
Lodz ghetto photos found in Vienna; Van Dyck reassessed; Tracey Emin in profile
The letter was written by Giacomo Boni and dates from 1925