Only a few of his buildings survive, but George Dance the Younger’s visionary designs for London should be better known
Seventeenth-century German glassware isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but the finest examples can fetch dazzlingly high prices
Works from diverse periods, schools and places rub shoulders at the long-running Brussels event and help keep things fresh
While many in the trade will be glad to see the back of 2024, whether the year ahead will be an improvement is completely up in the air
Figurative art is on the up and up but that doesn’t mean that every painting of a person is a literal depiction
The Met’s Siena show was the toast of New York and the National Gallery’s version is expected to wow London. After December’s strong Old Master sales, the past is looking golden
A large painting of three boys in the water does not readily disclose its secrets – but perhaps that is precisely the point
The home the writer designed for herself in the hills of Massachusetts is a window on to the shifting tastes of Gilded Age America
Though clearly influenced by Caravaggio, the Spanish painter rendered saints and sinners in a ferocious style all of his own
A retrospective by the textile artist is wonderfully open to interpretation, with works so inviting you might want to throw yourself at them
Artefacts looted by British soldiers from the Asante kingdom in the 19th century can now be seen in Ghana, but are loans from UK museums nearly enough?
The scholar’s meticulously preserved apartment in Rome testifies to his passion for all things 19th century, and to how he treated collecting as a form of memoir
From the ancient world to modern times, humans have looked to the esoteric arts to answer questions about life, the universe and everything
The Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania is not just a gallery, but also a winery offering visitors a dose of bacchanalian revelry
The painter talks to Apollo about queerness, his obsession with charcoal and why he loves the work of Keith Vaughan
Herve Guibert’s ‘photographic novel’ of 1980 about his great aunts, Suzanne and Louise, is a masterpiece of love and obsession
The innovations of artists in the first half of the 14th century created new pathways for painting for centuries to come
These artistic experiments by early embracers of new technologies already look charmingly retro
Tim Blanning’s masterful biography demonstrates that the despotic ruler of Saxony and Poland was rubbish at war, but had absolutely fabulous taste in art
Todd Longstaffe-Gowan’s exhibition about the capital’s lost green spaces yields a rich crop of curiosities
The story of an artist who has been forgotten for nearly 200 years reflects the hopes and failures of the turbulent times he lived through