In museums, minerals are both everyday matter and also objects of scientific interest – but they carry more intangible meanings too
Luxury brands are certainly contributing to the conservation of Venice – but massive advertisements on historic buildings are starting to spoil the views
The novelist revered Raphael’s Sistine Madonna – and Holbein’s Dead Christ almost induced an epileptic fit
In Istanbul, an exhibition of works created by women between 1850 and 1950 has made some impressive finds
It’s not easy to repackage a museum devoted to a Victorian missionary, but the David Livingstone Birthplace Museum has pulled it off
Time is suspended in Nicolas Poussin’s paintings of dancers who revel in the viewer’s attention
The discovery that the astrologer’s ‘scrying glass’ is made of obsidian from Mexico points to the complex global webs surrounding many Tudor objects
The spirit of innovation and manufacture lives on in the Midlands city – as a redeveloped museum on the site of the old silk mill makes clear
From street actions to art exhibitions, the organisation empowers homeless people to tell their own stories
Oxford Botanic Garden has played a vital role in the evolution of plant science since it was founded 400 years ago
Painted in around 1625, the Penitent Mary Magdalene inspired a host of copies before disappearing. Now, it has resurfaced in a private collection
Will the glittering new arts complex bring about a ‘Bilbao effect’ in the southern French city?
Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown studied with their father and had close connections to the Pre-Raphaelites – but their achievements have been overlooked until now
Frustrated that memories of more hopeful times are fading, the artist Intissar Belaid is determined to preserve what she can
The spectacular cave monastery of Sabereebi in Georgia is full of frescoes as stunning as their rocky setting
Museum directors in France and Italy seem to agree that requiring proof of vaccination is preferable to being shut – although not everyone is on board
The legendary picture editor Bruce Bernard was famously modest about his own photography, but his portraits of Lucian Freud are peerless
After his failure in politics, Henri Cernuschi succeeded in finance – and left an outstanding collection of Asian art to his adoptive city of Paris
The artist plans to turn a dilapidated palace into a lively new cultural venue – and the city needs others to follow his example
Joseph Gandy’s dramatic paintings turned John Soane’s neoclassical designs into full-blown Romantic fantasies
Mass-produced majolica has often been sneered at – but its exuberance is what makes it so appealing
The Crown Jewels are what the castle is most famous for, but over the centuries it has housed everything from prisoners to military hardware
David Chipperfield’s cool, if costly, renovation plays to the gallery’s minimalist strengths
Colombia’s indigenous communities are toppling statues of the Spanish conquerors to highlight past and present injustices
