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The Bowes Museum looks at how art dealers have shaped museum collections

Rarely exhibited objects from Saharan Africa, viewed alongside familiar European works, offer a fresh take on the Middle Ages

With his ambitious new public project in Genk, the Belgian artist fuses art, activism and animal husbandry

An exhibition in Dallas places the spotlight on the life and art of Georgia O’Keeffe’s younger sister

Highlights include a celebration of Cosimo de’ Medici at the Uffizi and ceramics from Africa at the Design Museum in Munich

Some seem beguiled by VR technology but others are using it to confront our faith in digital progress

From Leonardo to the Prado, and from the Bauhaus to the birth of John Ruskin, 2019 is full of significant anniversaries

From a Van Gogh biopic to a novel about Lee Miller, the books and films with an art-historical twist coming up in the next few months

Venice, the oldest and biggest biennale of all, returns in 2019, but there’s a plethora of other events to look forward to

The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm has a world-class collection and an international outlook to match

The artist is remembered as a pioneer of Minimalism, but his legacy as an experimental performer is equally powerful

The liveliness of the international art fair shows that the Nigerian arts scene is going from strength to strength

The museum’s gallery of historic plaster casts – newly restored – has long inspired conflicting responses

During the Jomon period the Japanese archipelago was home to one of the prehistoric world’s most innovative societies

Advances in digital imaging are revolutionising the study of art history

The 18th-century painter’s depictions of servants paused at work raise questions about the nature of attention