A show in Walthamstow examines the influence of the British artist, designer and political activist through a plethora of objects—many donated by the public

A Titian Madonna, a swashbuckling Medieval codex and a set of wearable Egyptian amulets are among the treasures at this year’s fair

A small casket, said to be a Barniz de Paso work, a largely forgotten form of varnishing, was found at the writer's house in East Sussex

Our picks from the decorative art and furniture design fair

Since its founding in 2003, the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art has assembled a collection of around 35,000 objects

The exhibition in Beijing of 17th- and 18th-century objects from the Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles will look at how artisans on opposite sides of the world influenced each other

The two internationally important chairs have been acquired for the reopening of the institution's Founder’s Galleries

An incisive study of the influential designer responsible for the V&A’s ‘Oriental Court’ in the 1860s

A new exhibition at Kettle’s Yard hopes to cement Rie’s status as one of the UK’s leading 20th-century ceramicists

Plus, Alice Neel's largest UK show and a dazzling turn-of-the-century blanket

Plus, a Charles II-era silver-gilt vases, an avant-garde Cuban painting and a rare Tintin comic book cover

The collaboration with Artory is the first in the history of the decorative arts

Institution will house Petr Aven’s collection of Russian and Latvian fine and decorative art

Best known for her ceramic pieces characterised by bold outlines and a vivid colour palette, Cliff was initially derided by the men who dominated her industry

Plus, a new centre to study Matisse at Baltimore Museum of Art and Josef Albers's lithographs at Cristea Roberts in London

An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York explores how the legendary film-maker came to be inspired by French decorative arts

The major show brings together over 200 treasures, while a never-seen-before group of desk ornaments turns up in Brighton

Police appealing for information after five items, including a pair of Sèvres vases and a clock with a bronze figure of Apollo, were taken from Uppark on the South Downs

Research on the historic piece of decorative art has revealed some surprising evidence that many of its original materials are intact

Conservation of the panels—bought by Elizabethan noblewoman Bess of Hardwick—has been National Trust's "most lengthy and expensive textile project"

An exhibition at London’s Garden Museum pays a floral tribute to one of the 20th century’s most colourful and influential florists

The richly decorated Schloss Köpenick serves as backdrop to a show of works by three artists whose motifs encompass the natural world and Greek legends

The third-generation Ateliers Hugo has been casting artists’ creations using ancient techniques from the same workshop in the south of France for nearly 70 years

One of the first pupils of Harvey Littleton at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he brought the studio glass movement to Britain, and beyond, in the mid-1960s

Exhibition of around 400 objects at the Moscow Kremlin Museums marks the centenary of the famed jeweller's death

The recovery of a Worcester soft-paste collection sheds light on 18th-century Anglo-Irish culture

The essays in this book investigate the many facets of this extraordinary 18th-century fashion

The way in which relics were presented determined what and how people thought of them, according to this publication of lectures

More of the startling objects collected by George IV will return from Buckingham Palace in early 2020

Deputy director’s swingeing salary cuts trigger resignations of around 50 employees at Moscow theatre museum