From the British Museum thefts to the consequences in art and heritage of the Israel-Hamas war

In 2023 the bar for shows was so high it was hard to choose the best. But which one was a stinker?

Kissinger, one of the most photographed men of his time, with an instantly recognisable pair of spectacles, was a powerful graphic gift to artists including Philip Guston

The long-delayed London survey is a revelatory tour de force that charts the twists and turns of the Canadian-American artist's 50-year career

The delay allowed the show's curators to travel and conduct further research about the Ku Klux Klan works, organisers say

A group of paintings and works on paper from the collection of Alan and Dorothy Press is estimated to fetch more than $50m across multiple sales in New York this spring

Some of the works from the collection, which will go on view next year, are featured in the controversial traveling retrospective devoted to Guston

Coinciding with opening of controversially postponed Guston show, these publications are vital to grasping the artist's contribution to post-war American art

Plus, a rediscovered Titian and a reliquary sculpture from Gabon

Plus, London's new Queer Britain museum and a rediscovered work by Caterina Angela Pierozzi

The changing of dates of a four-city survey, purportedly due to the artist’s Ku Klux Klan motifs, caused uproar in 2020. Now, after a curatorial rethink, the first exhibition is set to open

The sale at Sotheby's New York in May will coincide with the delayed opening of the controversial exhibition Philip Guston Now in Boston

Godfrey is taking voluntary redundancy as part of cost-cutting measures due to impact of Covid-19

Although Guston's paintings of Klansmen “remain controversial today” they are also “deeply relevant”, she says

After charges of racism levelled at his museum in 2019, Teitelbaum had to deal with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. And then there was the Guston controversy

A monograph on Catherine Opie, an analysis of museums in the 21st century and an overview of Joseph Beuys also make the grade

From the catalogue for a controversial Guston show to a four-volume tome on Leonardo Da Vinci—and some lighter reads too

From the saga over a controversially delayed Philip Guston show to an under appreciated female Old Master whose big moment never came

It was tempting to simply put “everything and everyone” in the bad-year column. But even this most challenging of years was not entirely terrible

Turbulent year draws to a close with sector wracked by pandemic lockdowns and Black Lives Matter challenges

The museums should make urgent use of the delay already caused by the pandemic rather than lurch towards lengthy postponement

Citing “unease and anxiety” about the show, the director of MFA, Boston predicts it will spur “in-depth discussions about great art”

Mark Godfrey has been disciplined after posting a long statement on his Instagram account describing postponement as "extremely patronising to viewers"

Plus, Maggi Hambling on making love with paint

“An exhibition with such strong commentary on race cannot be done by all white curators,” says NGA chief Kaywin Feldman

“The people who run our great institutions do not want trouble,” say signatories

Essays from African American artists such as Glenn Ligon and Trenton Doyle Hancock show that issues were being addressed

Move is deemed “cowardly” and “patronising” after joint statement from host museums including National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and London’s Tate Modern

The physiognomy of deviousness, greed, ruthless opportunism, risible self-importance and gobsmacking albeit garden variety stupidity provides artists of Guston’s bent and calibre with a virtually bottomless well of imagery

Plus, Robert Storr on his huge new book about the painter Philip Guston. Sponsored by Christie's