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A tour of Kolkata’s thriving art scene
An exhibition devoted to Krishna Reddy and awards for emerging Indian artists are among recent highlights in the city
Sun, sea and sand – Sorolla’s dazzling visions of Spain
The Valencian painter is little known in the UK, but a survey at the National Gallery is set to change this
‘Sydney was perfect for Edmund, and Edmund perfect for Sydney’ – a tribute to Edmund Capon
Remembering the pioneering director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, who led the museum from 1978 to 2011
Against boredom: a tribute to John Richardson
John Richardson was lavish, louche and learned – and one of the great characters of New York
Beyond TEFAF – more to see in and around Maastricht
There’s plenty to see throughout the Low Countries this month – from Van Gogh and Hockney to the Dutch Caravaggisti
The rise of the monumental statue in modern-day India
The world’s tallest statue now stands in Gujarat and even taller statues are planned in other states. What does this say about India today?
Acquisitions of the Month: February 2019
A Peter Doig landscape, a Banksy banknote, and a rare Rembrandt have entered public collections recently
The best preserved Roman ruins in France now have a museum to match
The new Musée de la Romanité in Nîmes makes the most of the city’s classical past
‘Robert Ryman gave us a lot to look at’
The painter’s commitment to white taught us new things about colour and about painting itself
How the Africa Museum is facing up to Belgium’s colonial past
The museum founded by Leopold II has reopened after a five-year closure and rethought all its displays. Has it gone far enough?
The disadvantages of being a woman artist haven’t yet disappeared
The under-representation of women by commercial art galleries helps depress their prices. How can this change?
A wacky Wunderkammer in Los Angeles
The Museum of Jurassic Technology is full of natural and man-made curiosities that inspire genuine wonder
How relevant is Ruskin today?
The bicentenary of the great Victorian critic’s birth is an occasion to consider how well his ideas have stood the test of time
Shining a spotlight on sculpture in the UK
With an ambitious digitisation project, Art UK aims to foster appreciation of an art form that is sometimes overlooked
The art of rocks, ruins and ruptured landscapes
John Ruskin, Paul Nash and a host of more recent artists have found geology a rich seam to mine
Edward Allington’s classically inspired approach to modern sculpture
The British sculptor was a great talent in his own right and a dedicated teacher
A new era at the National Museum of Scotland
The last phase of the museum’s makeover gives its Egyptian, East Asian and ceramic collections a chance to shine
A window on the world in watercolour
A new online database reveals how before photography, watercolours were used as visual records
Typing tools, tropical trees and a whole lot of sunshine – the new Norton Museum of Art
Norman Foster’s expansion of the museum in West Palm Beach has been unveiled – and the institution’s new look is enticingly offbeat
Inside Turin’s Museum of Fruit
A 19th-century artist spent decades creating this remarkable pomological collection
Acquisitions of the Month: January 2019
A medieval book coffer and a painting by Rembrandt’s teacher are among the top recent museum acquisitions
The untold story of museums and the art market
The Bowes Museum looks at how art dealers have shaped museum collections
Assembling the fragments of Africa’s medieval past
Rarely exhibited objects from Saharan Africa, viewed alongside familiar European works, offer a fresh take on the Middle Ages
The madcap menagerie of Koen Vanmechelen
With his ambitious new public project in Genk, the Belgian artist fuses art, activism and animal husbandry
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