Haute couture and holy robes at the Met
High fashion turns out to be no match for some lavish loans from the Vatican
Will blockchain transform the art market?
Numerous art-focused start-ups are offering services that use blockchain technology. Do they have what it takes to disrupt the art market?
The hidden gems of the Fitzwilliam Museum
The museum is showing off its collection of jewels and metalwork, from neo-gothic to art nouveau
Book competition
Your chance to win Miraculous Encounters: Pontormo from Drawing to Painting (Getty Publications)
‘No story of painting in St Ives is complete without W.S. Graham’
An exhibition on the art of the Scottish poet reveals the impact that his friendship with the St Ives artists had on his own work
Joe Tilson looks back on 70 years of making art
As he turns 90, the British artist reflects on Pop art, politics and leaving London for a life in the country
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September 2018
• Berthe Morisot takes centre stage
• An interview with Joe Tilson
• Pots and pans in the paintings of Chardin
• Imagining Armenia
Plus: La Biennale Paris preview, Tintoretto at 500, Amy Sillman, and the biennial boom
Alice Kettle’s textiles stitch together the stories of refugees
An exhibition of the artist’s new large-scale textiles in Manchester bears witness to the migrant crisis
David Wojnarowicz’s art is as urgent now as it was in the 1980s
The playful, elegaic and militant qualities of the artist’s work make a powerful impression at the Whitney
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How the V&A Dundee is rewriting the history of Scotland
The country’s first design museum is taking a cosmopolitan approach to presenting the national story
Highlights of LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair 2018
The works not to miss at the 10th edition of LAPADA’s annual fair
‘It is a strange little science-fiction period in the history of photography’ – Wim Wenders on his Polaroids
The film-maker discusses the unique quality of Polaroids – and why in the future no one will see the digital photographs being taken today
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In search of the Venus de Milo – on Milos and in Paris
The statue has been in Paris for nearly two centuries, but does it belong back on the island of Milos?
The eclectic country houses of George Devey
The Victorian architect fused styles past and present, inventing fictive histories for his buildings
The many faces of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
The distorted Character Heads of the 18th-century sculptor have long perplexed critics
‘The colours I use are the colours of California’ – an interview with Etel Adnan
The Lebanese–American painter and poet talks about her love of the Golden State and the difference between her painting and writing
Ribera: Art of Violence
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Exploring the master of the Spanish baroque’s depictions of physical pain, in paint and on paper
26 Sep 2018 - 27 Jan 2019
Luigi Ghirri. The Map and the Territory
Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
Ghirri’s photographs of suburban life in 1970s Italy form the focus of this retrospective
26 Sep 2018 - 7 Jan 2019
Between Worlds: The Art of Bill Traylor
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
The self-taught artist and former slave’s work captures a changing America, from the Civil War to Jim Crow
28 Sep 2018 - 17 Mar 2019
Oceania
Royal Academy of Arts London
Celebrating 500 years of art and culture from the Pacific region, from Easter Island to Papua New Guinea
29 Sep - 10 Dec 2018
Is it time to call an end to biennials?
Biennials are a mainstay of the contemporary art world, but their purpose seems increasingly unclear