Louise Nicholson is a freelance arts writer and Apollo contributor

The Partition Museum in Amritsar's Town Hall
Anish Kapoor’s Descension in Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York. Photo: James Ewing, Public Art Fund, NY © Anish Kapoor, 2017
Stracci Italiani (2007), Michelangelo Pistoletto
The Video Gallery at 21c Nashville. Photo: Mike Schwartz. Courtesy 21c Museum Hotels
Gandhi's funeral. Crowds gathered between Birla House and the cremation ground, throwing flowers (1948), Henri Cartier-Bresson. © Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos
Rendering of glass staircase in the Tiffany Gallery, Fourth Floor, New-York Historical Society. Courtesy Eva Jiřičná Architects
Aerial view of the museum. Courtesy the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Queen Charlotte (1771), Johan Joseph Zoffany. Royal Collection Trust, UK, © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2016
Baggage Claim (2010), Jitish Kallat. Centre Pompidou, Paris
Madame Noblet (1897), Medardo Rosso.
Carudatta Presenting a Pearl Necklace to Vasantesena, (c. 1952), Y. G. Srimati.
Jagdish Mittal, founder of the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art, Hyderabad
Rama kills the demon warrior Makaraksha in combat. From a manuscript of the Ramayana (c. 1790), India; Himachal Pradesh state, former kingdom of Guler. Photo © Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Looking at Matisse Today: A Symposium, 2016. © The Barnes Foundation. Photo by Keristin Gaber
Installation View: ‘Calder and Picasso’, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, 2016
Hall from Madanagopalaswamy Temple (c. 1560), Madurai, South India. Photo: Joseph Hu, 2016
Virginia Dwan in her gallery during the exhibition 'Language III', Dwan Gallery, New York (May 1969). Courtesy Dwan Gallery Archive
Cabin (2016), Rachel Whiteread, on Discovery Hill, Governors Island. Photo by Tim Schenck.
Ritual dou vessel with phoenix-shaped handles (Qing dynasty, reign of Emperor Yongzheng: 1723–35), by the Imperial Workshop, Beijing. Photo: © National Palace Museum, Taipei