Donald Lee
Donald Lee is the Literary Editor of The Art Newspaper
'Prime minister of taste': Horace Walpole's collection reunited at Strawberry Hill
Exhibition in collector's former Thames-side home follows a successful (and ongoing) treasure hunt
From the rise of the Colourists to refugees in Scottish art: the Fleming Collection at 50
Two exhibitions in Scotland celebrate the collection’s birthday
From Waldmüller to Klimt: bouquets in abundance at Vienna's Belvedere
Exhibition looks at Austrian obsession with flower painting since the 18th century
Crowd-magnet Vermeer borrowed for Alte Pinakothek’s curtain-raiser
Munich museum has undergone a four-year €12m renovation
Three to see: London
Rodin takes on the Parthenon sculptures at the British Museum while James Cook sets sail for the British Library
Rodin’s debt to Parthenon sculptures explored in British Museum exhibition
Eighty marble, bronze and plaster works by French artist are put in dialogue with ancient Greek art
Turner Prize nominee Gillian Ayres dies, aged 88
Abstract artist and printmaker was made a Royal Academician in 1991, but she resigned temporarily in 1997
How Delacroix went from lycée dropout to establishment favourite
Exhibition at the Musée du Louvre is first major survey of the painter’s work in more than 50 years
Three to see: London
The Brazilian Modernists who helped with the war effort, and the last chance to see Winnie-the-Pooh
Three to see: London
From Picasso's year of masterpieces at Tate Modern to his fellow Spaniard Murillo's portraits at the National Gallery
Church of the Holy Sepulchre re-opened after three-day protest closure
Shrine was shut amid escalation of Israeli-Palestinian hostilities
All the city's a stage: Munich celebrates Goethe's Faust with group show and festival
Exhibition commemorating German play includes works by Eugène Delacroix, Robert Mapplethorpe and Martin Scorsese
Thomas Cole's Old World roots and art-world inspirations examined in transatlantic show
Exhibition on US painter opens at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art before travelling to London
Fit for a king? What the British press is saying about the new Charles I exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts show has received near unanimous reviews
Three to see in New York in 2018
Our pick of must-see shows opening in the coming year
Architectural historian appointed director of The Queen’s art collection
Tim Knox, currently director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, is a keen connoisseur of works of art
Hail, Caesar, as Rome’s first 12 emperors return
Metropolitan Museum of Art reassembles 16th-century silver table ornaments for first time in two centuries
Merrie Monarch’s collection goes on show at the Queen’s Gallery
Despite the dispersion of his executed father’s vast holdings, Charles II acquired a formidable set of works
‘Everything refers to everything else’: Vienna exhibitions reveal impact of other artists on Raphael and Rubens
Concurrent surveys in Austrian capital investigate the Old Masters' imaginative resources
Podcast episode five: what's the story behind the $100m Leonardo?
What will happen when the only painting in private hands by the Renaissance master heads to auction? Plus: the New Museum's big new show on gender, and our literary editor talks 18th-century princesses
Three to see: London
From slick and surreal photographs at the Serpentine to art in canal boats for the Art Licks Weekend
Deh vieni, non tardar: opera for all at the V&A
London museum and Royal Opera House bring the elite musical form to the masses
Three to see: London
From Rachel Whiteread’s mummified air to the burial rituals of the mysterious Scythians
Elusive Scythians brought to life through show of archaeological discoveries
British Museum exhibition organised with Hermitage traces history of a culture with no written records
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
A long history of scholarship drives a survey of Raphael’s drawings
The Ashmolean Museum joins forces with the Albertina in Vienna for the show
Naming names: on the Le Nain mystery at Louvre-Lens
An exhibition attempts to assign discrete attributions to the works of the brothers Le Nain