Criminal thoughts about a Rubens portrait and watching Nanette on my summer art detox
Rubens’s portrait of his daughter Clara Serena gave me the urge to steal a painting
Diary of an art historian: at last, some common sense for the abolition of image fees
Birmingham Museums Trust takes the lead and places images in the public domain, but who will follow?
Do not allow art to cleanse crimes
The art world has yet to tackle issues around works like Picasso’s $115m child-prostitute portrait
Design or colour? Look to Titian
A shoestring trip to La Serenissima—and a thumbs-up for Simon Schama
Lessons in collecting from the court of Charles I
He relied on advisers such as Van Dyck to guide his acquisitions. How different is the art of connoisseurship today?
How abolishing museum image fees could boost audiences
New research shows that image licensing is barely profitable for some UK museums
Podcast episode 16: Charles I at the Royal Academy—an exhibition fit for a king
We pick apart the latest smash hit show to open in London with art historian Bendor Grosvenor, then complete our 2018 preview with a look at the big exhibitions coming to the US this year
Stop reading, start looking: today’s art history students are not getting a grounding in connoisseurship skills
When I put an image of a well-known Titian on the screen, only one of 40 could identify the artist
How to identify a wreck
Better public understanding of condition requires greater access to digital images
Re-discoveries lead London Old Master auctions
New £7.3m record for Joseph Wright of Derby painting tops December sales in London
London poised to regain Old Master crown from New York
Sotheby’s offers its most valuable Old Master sale in London, and a Guardi painting at Christie’s could break records
How to spot a knackered picture
As collector's flock to Maastricht for Tefaf, here is our guide to recognising a painting's hidden qualities
Local collections should be nationalised to halt sell-offs
A stroke of a ministerial pen saved Liverpool’s collections 35 years ago—the same needs to happen again
Goya, Constable and Brueghel headline Old Master auctions in London
Tefaf New York proved there is life in the market—can this week's sales do the same?
Object lessons: best of London's Old Master auctions
From a poetic Claude landscape to Rubens's masterpiece depicting biblical incest, here's our pick of this week's sales
Brexit: “We have chosen the way of Hogarth over Turner”
Bendor Grosvenor says Britain leaving the European Union could be costly for the arts and art market
There's life in the Old Masters yet, as recent sales show
As Tefaf Maastricht prepares to open its doors, Bendor Grosvenor debunks the myth that the market is dying
Sexy, spotless and sure: the three golden rules of desire
As far as a painting’s hammer price is concerned, other, less noble considerations matter a great deal more than the picture’s intrinsic quality
Slim pickings from Old Masters sales in a lukewarm London
Most of the consignments this season were really not up to scratch, with Christie’s, in particular, taking something of a beating
Flattering portrait of Henry VIII helps Sotheby’s dominate Old Master auctions
Work from Hans Holbein’s studio was a highlight of London’s sale season
Surfacing on the market: Henry after Holbein
Sotheby’s, London, Old Master and British Paintings Evening Sale, 8 July
Why La Serenissima is painting’s spiritual home
These five masterpieces, still in the Venetian spaces they originally filled, mark a watershed in Western painting
Ickworth House revisited: a stately home stripped bare
Why the National Trust's strategy of decluttering grand interiors is deeply flawed