Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's epic 19th-century redesigns of the cathedral are a highlight of the exhibition at Bard Graduate Center in New York

World leaders descend on Davos this week—but the wider region has much more to offer than the World Economic Forum

The major survey repositions the French artist as more than a Neoclassicist, emphasising instead his realism and idealism

We round-up the biggest shows opening each month

In a year of turbulence and uncertainty, new museums and dazzling shows were proof of art as a positive force

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

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

Ambiguity and subtlety have returned to the Carpaccio work, following the removal of grime and old varnish

This summer a team of archaeologists resumed their work on a site dating back to around 600BC, known for its three well-preserved Doric temples

The Parisian museum has recently made headlines for all the wrong reasons—so now is a good time to remember its greatness

Thomas S. Kaplan’s Leiden Collection will part with one of its earliest acquisitions, “Young Lion Resting”, at Sotheby’s in February

Giant statues and a section of Trajan’s Column flaunt the might and culture of the empire under the successful ruler

From a bizarre carved cherry pit to Jan van Eyck’s only known surviving drawing—here are the works not to miss in the German art hub

Excavations of the still-buried portion of the palatial building may begin as early as next year and could unearth new frescoes

The 93-year-old German artist is showing 275 works, from his breakthrough photographic paintings of the 1960s to last year’s ink-cloud drawings

The Museum Villa Stuck’s opulent interiors have had new life breathed into them—and the influential artist’s collection has been rehung

The exhibition brings together more than 140 works, including key altarpieces reconstructed with the help of some detective work

The project rebuilds the war-damaged complex housing some of Germany’s most important art and artefacts

Highlights from the collection of the Hispanic Society Museum and Library in New York collection travel to the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin

After overhauling the Uffizi Galleries and running for mayor of Florence, Schmidt is now making his mark in a new destination

The Frick veteran is particularly excited about all the new conservation spaces, created as part of the museum’s recent Selldorf-designed expansion

It is one of only two marble works by the revered Mannerist sculptor in a US museum

From Paul Signac’s Saint-Tropez scene to Jean Cocteau’s fishermen’s chapel, here is our pick of the art to see all year round on the coveted stretch of the Mediterranean coast

In a new show, The Deutsches Historisches Museum explores how institutions in cities across Europe reacted to Nazi horrors

A Veronese show in May is set to be latest in long line of Renaissance Venice crowd-pleasers for the Spanish institution

The Austrian artist tragically died aged 28 but left behind 400 paintings and thousands of works on paper, a selection of which are going on show at the Leopold Museum

The discovery adds to evidence that preparatory drawings were common practice for Venetian artists as well as for their Florentine peers

An extensive exhibition dedicated to the Dutch artist highlights her beautifully detailed still-lifes. But do these paintings offer more than splendid decoration?

The works are a bequest from the museums’ late, longtime supporters Philip and Lynn Straus

The show will contrast the approach of the so-called Verists, such as George Grosz and Otto Dix, with the Classicists, such as Eberhard Viegener