From the British Museum thefts to the consequences in art and heritage of the Israel-Hamas war

The war in Gaza casts a dark shadow over 2023

There is something for every art lover among our pick of the publications—from a forgotten 17th-century painter to a lively history of dyes

Middling performance of such auctions throughout 2023, with high costs and some sales coming in below their estimates, made a “sure thing” look less so

In 2023 the bar for shows was so high it was hard to choose the best. But which one was a stinker?

From the theft of artefacts at the British Museum to a hammer attack on Velázquez’s “The Rokeby Venus”