Masterpiece pulls out the stops for its first online edition
Virtual viewing rooms, video tours and private Zoom meetings – here’s what to expect from Masterpiece Online
How will museums bring us close to art in an era of social distancing?
As museums around the world prepare to reopen, many do so with a renewed sense of purpose
Geneva’s modern art museum displays a refreshingly makeshift spirit
MAMCO’s origins as a collection formed by independent collectors still makes itself felt in interesting ways
What makes a museum ‘fire-proof’?
The Getty Center’s fire prevention system is a standard-bearer for museums and historic properties worldwide
What not to miss at the winter edition of London Art Week
Highlights of the artworks and exhibitions on show in Mayfair and St James’s this year
Around the world in 35,000 objects – and a handful of clicks
The Khalili Collections have partnered up with Wikimedia UK to broaden access to their vast holdings spanning centuries and cultures
Within a hare’s breadth of Dürer’s masterful drawings at the Albertina
A Dürer show at the Albertina presents a rare opportunity to see some of the German artist’s drawings usually kept caged up in the dark
Minimalism, murals and makeshift studios – contemporary art comes to Munich
The Bavarian capital is reasserting its position as a city to rival Berlin in its embrace of the arts
In defence of the catalogue raisonné
With the art market crying out for definitive catalogues, a new international association has been launched to support their production
Scene stealers – the candid sketches of Adolph Menzel
The virtuoso draughtsman carried several sketchbooks at all times and liked to draw standing up
The painter who made his name on the Western Front
Alfred Munnings was an official war artist who took a curiously pastoral approach to the conflict
H.C. Westermann’s sinister visions of post-war America
His experiences as a marine gunner in the Second World War and Korea made a lasting impact on Westermann’s art
A window on the world in watercolour
A new online database reveals how before photography, watercolours were used as visual records
The modern painters who were mad about Frans Hals
Van Gogh, Whistler, Sargent and Manet were just some of the major artists who made pilgrimages to Haarlem to see Hals’s work
The Foundling Museum puts women in their rightful place
Portraits of men have been replaced with those of the women who first petitioned George II to set up the Foundling Hospital
Tomma Abts’ intriguing paintings contain infinite worlds
In the largest survey of her work so far, the artist explores the tensions between control and chaos
An alternative history of abstract art
A survey of works by women painters makes for an enthralling display, but is the gender of the artists the most important factor?
What Magritte found out in Paris
The artist’s time in the French capital was not a success, but it formed his thinking about words and pictures
Reading the riddles of Giorgio de Chirico
Considering the artist’s writing gives us invaluable new ways in which to see his painting
Oswald Birley’s society portraits should have a wider public
The portraitist was highly sought after in his heyday, but his reputation has languished in recent years
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