From votive offerings to anatomical models, wax is the perfect material for blurring the boundaries between art and life
When Simon Pettet moved into Dennis Severs’ House in Spitalfields he began to channel the 18th century in the 1980s
The Art Gallery of New South Wales’s extension is too populist and commercially minded for some – but it is full of possibilities
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s sculpture garden in Piedmont is also home to the family rosé
The American artist’s melancholy approach is part of a much punchier tradition says Elisa Germán, co-curator of a show at Harvard Art Museums
Enrolment in the humanities is tumbling across the United States, but the numbers for fine art are still holding up
The gallery founded by the Amber Collective is a champion of documentary photography, strongly rooted in the local area, and deserves all the support it can get
Finland’s most important art museum has been completely rehung just as questions of culture and national identity are on everyone’s mind
The self-styled ‘living sculptures’ have long been an east London fixture – and they’ve just opened a new centre in a bid to stick around even after they’re gone
A rare 17th-century gold ruby glass goblet and original designs by Augustus Pugin are among this month’s highlights
The Plateforme 10 project has brought the city’s fine arts, design and photo museums together on the site of a former train yard
The arts centre’s new restaurant is not exactly a feast for the eyes, but the food more than makes up for it
At the Kronenhalle in Zurich, the writer was most likely to ask for Fendant de Sion, a wine that deserves to be much better known abroad
After a spell in the doldrums, prices for magnificent carpets from across the continent are starting to soar again
The Swedish artist is now fêted as a pioneer of abstract art, but her spiritual inclinations are what really resonate today
When we think of the biblical folly, it’s Pieter Breugel the Elder’s painting that first comes to mind – but artists and writers are still reimagining it today
At the MAH in Geneva, the artist Ugo Rondinone has rehung Le Sommeil to bring its livelier side to the fore, explains curator Samuel Gross
The sculptor was regarded as too sensual by classicists and too cold by Romantics, but a more superficial look at his work suggests what he was really up to
The naturalist sketched his discoveries with unmatched dedication, but was unlucky to lose so many of the original specimens at sea
David Bowie’s archive and the first clutch of NFTs to be acquired by a French museum are among this month’s highlights
The growing tendency to fold 20th-century makers into the history of modern art often ignores what was truly innovative about their work
While the artist’s life can pose difficulties, the Musée Picasso in Paris is finding ways to open up his work for a new generation
Long after David Sassoon’s descendants had entered the highest echelons of English society, their collecting reflected the family’s ties to the Middle East, India and China
The Palais de Danse in St Ives allowed the sculptor’s work to grow in ambition
