We reveal the research and science behind the monograph exhibition exploring the Renaissance painter's artistic evolution

The artist is best known as Leonardo’s teacher, but an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington aims to highlight his own technical accomplishment and inventiveness

The former shipyards house many of the star national displays this year, here are some of the best

From an aquatic odyssey to a guerrilla dance performance, here are the exhibitions we loved at the heart of the big event

Hirst has spent the past 18 months in his London studio painting cherry blossom and now, in an exclusive interview, he explains why this new body of work is a matter of life and death

The Virgin and Laughing Child was recently re-attributed as the artist's “only surviving sculpture”

Every aspect of modern museography is used to create immersive displays and engaging learning experiences

Diplomats hint at future cooperation between the countries at Texas conference

“Spalliera” panels depicting parables are reunited at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for the first time in 500 years

Some, like Mark Wallinger, hold out vain hope for a second referendum, others, like Anish Kapoor, say we must come together to beat mounting xenophobia and intolerance

Russian museum is pursuing global expansion with long-term plans under way for Barcelona and China

Did Louvre Abu Dhabi’s $450m painting belong to an English nobleman who followed Charles I to the scaffold in 1649?

A new blog by Martin Bailey

While this year's A-level results show a rapid decline in arts subjects in the UK, countries outside of the West are stepping up teaching of creative subjects

From rejuvenated “killed negatives” to a new lease of life for the UK’s only Michelangelo marble

The Taddei Tondo has not always been treated as a masterpiece