Art history
Warship figureheads restored ahead of opening for new Plymouth arts complex
Royal Navy statues are being made shipshape and ready for installation at The Box, opening in 2020
The all-powerful market is sounding the death knell for connoisseurship
Today, art history is increasingly being written by dealers and auctioneers to suit their own purpose
Murders most foul: Gainsborough family revenge killings trigger reassessment of artist’s early years
New research reveals that two members of Thomas Gainsborough's family were killed over a financial dispute when the artist was a child
Beacons of empathy: the forgotten women who brought the Foundling Museum to life
The portraits of men in the London museum's picture gallery are being replaced by portraits of women who supported a vision to protect young children
Chicago’s art history, revised
Art in Chicago illuminates a rich and ultimately countercultural legacy
Reliving the dawn of Modernism in India
An art historian explores the importance of the pathbreaking Progressive Artists’ Group, the focus of an exhibition opening at Asia Society
A long history of scholarship drives survey of Raphael’s drawings currently exhibited at the Ashmolean
Debate over attribution has marked modern scholarship on this great master, bringing nuance to the Oxford show
Winckelmann's impact on modern concepts of art history is celebrated in Weimar
The man who wrote art history is remembered 300 years after his birth
Germany marks the 500th anniversary of Luther’s Theses
Several exhibits are taking place across the country, including the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin
Chinese institutions work with the Metropolitan for groundbreaking exhibition
'Age of Empires' explores the art of the Qin and Han dynasties
Statens Museum for Kunst assesses how Northern Europeans interpreted Japan
Japanomania returns once more to Copenhagen as the exhibition looks at how Nordic artists used Japanese art in their own work
Books: Caravaggio's diametrically opposed contexts in conflict
Across two books, the master's work is interpreted in divergent, not diverse, ways
Photo shows that made history
As a new book surveys landmark photographic exhibitions, museums are only starting to catch up with the digital revolution of the medium
Books: Two books explore newer ways of seeing the world (and art) with varying degrees of success
Where Ossian Ward provides a handy guide, Charles Saatchi fails to impress
Books: Have curators and collectors replaced critics? Paul Wood demystifies while Alistair Hicks disappoints
Two very different books speak to a worrying trend in the critique of art
Art Basel follows Frieze’s lead with display covering art-historical endeavours
Survey, which will debut at Art Basel Miami Beach, uses Frieze Masters as its template
Books: A far from academic set-up at the Académie royale
The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture promoted “diversity of manners” rather than stylistic unity
The forgotten collectors: Five significant 19th-century collectors
The contributions of tobacco heiresses and banking magnates explored
More questions than answers after ‘miraculous’ Russian avant-garde show
Specialists express concern about lack of provenance for works by artists including Rodchenko and Goncharova in Italian exhibition
Great War memorials go online for first time
The project has already documented around 2,000 works
Ethics and aesthetics: the increasing prominence of socially engaged art
Away from the glitz of record-breaking auction prices and extravagant art parties, austerity has given strength to a new movement of socially engaged artists
Books: How Warburg helped to invent the exhibition—and the curator
The art historian’s collected writings include an illuminating essay drawn from his dazzling, lengthy lectures
How printmaking made Rembrandt an international star
New technology and growing middle class consumption opened up his works and those of his contemporaries to new markets
Books: The fake’s progress from a sign of genius to a nefarious act... and back again
The history and scholarship of art forgery, and a faker’s delighted account of a life of deception
How a group of dissident artists was almost catapulted to international stardom by a marketing error
The story of Moscow's underground art of the 1970s
Who’s in the picture? Anti-terror software might tell us
Face recognition software used to spot terrorists may be the answer to identifying unknown sitters in portraits.
Books: A heavyweight volume trawls the archives of Magnum Photos to celebrate a once revolutionary, now dying technique
In between the (contact) sheets
Books: The National Gallery’s latest Technical Bulletin makes some great discoveries
The volume is a compendium of papers presented at the Gallery in September 2009
Why the art world is crazy about Cranach
New technology is shedding light on an Old Master as the prolific, multi-talented artist enjoys a renaissance
Books: Art not made by artists and trends in art production
When artists subcontract technicians to make the works they design, who’s the artist?