ReviewExhibitions
‘Less is a Bore’: ICA Boston takes Maximalism to the max
Exhibition celebrates patterns yet transcends decoration
NewsChâteau de Versailles
Château de Versailles buys back €4m royal commode that left France after Louvre missed its royal mark
The piece of furniture by Bernard II van Risenburgh, which left for the US almost four decades ago, was commissioned by Louis XV for his stepdaughter
InterviewJewellery
Wakanda comes to Washington
Douriean Fletcher, who made the jewellery for Black Panther, speaks at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
ReviewBook Shorts
The art-historical treasures of Clementia of Hungary, Queen of France
Book looks at one royal's Medieval gifts, giving and inventories
FeatureObituaries
Remembering Jayne Wrightsman
A reminiscence of the New York socialite, arts patron and philanthropist by Keith Christiansen, the chairman of the Met's European Paintings Department
ReviewBook Shorts
Kings, queens but mostly lesser royal hangers-on: the art-historical story of Kensington Palace
The great building as seen through the generations of its occupants
ReviewBook Shorts
A book on birth and child-rearing before Dr Spock
The history—in images and works of decorative art—of giving birth and raising children before 1900
ReviewBooks
A hefty tome on the arts of the Austro-Hungarian belle époque
The extraordinary mitteleuropäische flourishing of all the arts from 1900 to 1914
NewsConservation & Preservation
Restored, but demoted: stained-glass window not by Tiffany, expert says
River of Life depiction has been newly reattributed to J & R Lamb Studios
NewsOpenings
A bigger splash: France's expanded La Piscine museum reopens after makeover
Former Art Deco swimming pool in Roubaix dives into Modern French sculpture
NewsExhibitions
How Nazi-commissioned tapestries ended up in the Louvre’s collection
An exhibition of 100 masterpieces from the Gobelins manufactory reveals a complicated repatriation after the Second World War
NewsConservation & Preservation
The amazing technicolour Chippendale: museum injects colour back into 18th-century work
Show at Leeds City Museum is one of this year's many events commemorating the tercentenary of the furniture maker’s birth
BlogIn the frame
Ben Carson’s bad taste lands him before Congress
NewsArt fairs
See the ‘holy grail’ of American porcelain at New York Ceramics & Glass Fair
The 18th-century punch bowl was unearthed during an archaeological dig in Philadelphia