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Do digital techniques to enliven familiar paintings help or hinder our understanding of the art at hand?

Koen Bulckens of the Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp explains what makes the painter’s portrait of ‘the weeping prophet’ such an emotional tour de force

The Palazzo della Pilotta contains three museums, a historic library and one of the oldest theatres in Europe – but, until its recent refurbishment, has often been overlooked

There’s a thin but fluid line between fine art and fashion for the artist who is now making accessories for Loewe

Every summer, the emperor Franz Josef celebrated his birthday in the ‘earthly paradise’ of Bad Ischl, now a European Capital of Culture

While the appointment or dismissal of directors makes headlines, chronic understaffing is a much more fundamental problem

Two hundred years after the painter’s death, his work still has the power to shock and his life remains shrouded in mystery

After the demolition of some of Chicago’s best architecture, what lies in store for postmodernist landmark the James R. Thompson Center now that Google owns it?