Dubbed the ‘Mona Lisa of the decorative arts’, the work is now the most expensive Fabergé egg ever sold at auction

The Zayed National Museum, designed by Norman Foster, and the Natural History Museum, are both located on the emirate’s Saadiyat Island

Testimonies from arts workers claim that expressions of solidarity with Palestine and support for the rights of transgender people are being disproportionately stifled

The 14th-century, English-made Asante Ewer was seized from the royal palace in Kumasi in 1896 and has been held by the British Museum ever since

The artist’s large-scale Faena Art commission is a site for dialogue in increasingly polarised times

The Miami-based artist’s makeover of the Locust Projects building explores sugar, power and a city on the edge in her first major solo show

Anastasia Samoylova’s photo series, debuting at the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, depicts trappings of Americana

The artist Leandro Erlich has created the first work for Reefline, a submerged installation that aims to regenerate coral and marine biodiversity along South Beach

The best publications about Picasso's later years, from an esteemed biography to a book about his animal drawings—selected by the curators Dieter Buchhart and Anna Karina Hofbauer

Our round-up of the latest art publications

The security expert Anthony Amore provides insights into the curious case of Myles Connor, who stole Rembrandt’s Portrait of Elsbeth van Rijn

In this extract from her new book, Maria "Masha" Alyokhina Alyokhina recalls her first meeting with the Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson

The works by Marina Abramović, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman, Vik Muniz and others are the subject of an ongoing special exhibition

Plus, versions of famous images by Bruegel and L.S. Lowry are on sale this month

Kara Walker, Wolfgang Tillmans, Peter Doig and Olafur Eliasson are among the artists raising funds for Médecins Sans Frontières' efforts in Gaza

‘David and Goliath’ went to auction with an estimate of just just €2m–€4m

Pit diggers may have been trying to connect with the underworld, archaeologist Vincent Gaffney says

Legislation allows non-national museums established as charities to transfer property on a “moral basis” depending on its value

The announcement follows a new report which revealed a sharp decrease in the numbers of schools teaching art history

Sonnabend Collection in Mantua—home to the collection of the late dealer Ileana Sonnabend—includes works by Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol as well as contemporary artists

Zilart will house the huge collection of St Petersburg property developer Andrey Molchanov and his wife, Yelizaveta Molchanov

From the late greats Richard Hunt and Joyce Pensato at the Institute of Contemporary Art to Hiba Schahbaz at Moca North Miami, Jack Pierson at the Bass and a look back at the futurism of World’s Fairs at the Wolfsonian

Show at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt also demonstrates how the German artist's practice was altered radically by his experiences during the First World War

The Henry Moore Institute's new show, ‘Beyond the Visual’, unpacks the value of the haptic and how perception involves all the senses

To read a painting is to understand the context in which it was made, not the context in which we see it, writes Bendor Grosvenor

The writer went beyond the noble occupation of the art critic, smuggling hope into our lives

Affinities and distinctions are equally welcomed in a pair of exhibitions at the London venue

Several New York galleries have hit major milestones in recent months—what lessons can those in charge impart?

The artist had “a very full existence” in the French capital during the 1970s

Swifties have been arriving in droves to catch a glimpse of Friedrich Heyser's Ophelia, which appears in a recent music video by the showgirl superstar

An new app allows visitors to ‘speak’ with 20 statues in three languages

The Queen of Pop’s 2003 visit sparked a lawsuit—but she was spotted there again just last month

From the signage of HMS Victory and Tate Britain, to the graphic identities of galleries and biennials, his designs can be found across contemporary British culture

The founding editor-in-chief of the bilingual Artes Visuales magazine, Stellweg ran galleries in new York and was also a prolific critic, scholar and curator

A beloved figure in the Windy City art scene, Fitzpatrick was an artist, author, actor, curator and more

In addition to supporting many art institutions, Gund was a passionate funder of arts education and criminal justice reform initiatives