German artist urges art world to rally against cultural funding from embattled family at opening of her show at Serpentine Sackler Gallery

Work created for Milan Design Week perpetuates violence against women, critics say

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Van Dyck’s portrait of a princess bride to a rare painting by a Brazilian Modernist

Research by UK startup Vastari delves into hidden economics of museums' special shows

From Tishan Hsu's family photographs at Empty Gallery to a group show on violence set inside a former police station

Free exhibition of his installations at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC tops our Art's Most Popular survey

Curator Alexie Glass-Kantor talks us through her selection of large-scale works at the fair this year

Schemes such as Slow Art Day offer an alternative to life in the fast lane, away from the jostling crowds and selfie-takers

Escape fairtigue with gallery shows across the city, from Mary Corse and Louise Bourgeois to Tishan Hsu and Richard Lin

MK Gallery's new £12m building is inspired by utopian 1970s heyday of England’s maligned New Town

Award from Outset Partners will support Arte Útil project to queer collections and work with local communities

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from a totemic Klansman to the art of colonial Latin America

The painting, thought to be the second version of the Baroque artist’s Judith Beheading Holofernes will be auctioned this June with an estimate of £86m-£129m

From the surreal sights of Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern to the trompe l’oeils and Parisian scenes of Louis-Léopold Boilly at the National Gallery

Human extinction and planetary devastation are tackled in the XXII Triennale di Milano—but the message is one of hope through innovation

More than two-thirds of Antonello da Messina’s 35 accepted autograph works are reunited for a show at Palazzo Reale

Hauser & Wirth has helped to develop “sustainable model” for Chillida Leku, which partially closed amidst Spanish economic crisis

Senior curator Margaret Maitland reveals the stories behind some of the key exhibits in the new Ancient Egypt Rediscovered gallery

The £80m masterplan has created 50% more public space and unveiled 6,500 forgotten objects

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from Dalí’s lobster telephone to a bumper gift of indigenous art

Drawings from the Royal Collection go on show around the country this week before larger surveys in London and Edinburgh later in the year

Exhibition aims to reassess French artist’s reputation and revel in depth and detail of his work

Our pick of the most significant new gifts and purchases to enter museum collections worldwide, from a vintage Hawaiian shirt to an heirloom Chinese art collection

Muzeum Susch aims to bring a “disruptive outlook” to the historic Engadin valley pilgrimage site

Exhibition of Europe’s greatest female Old Master will include museum's freshly conserved acquisition

From a busy Bruegel blockbuster to a whimsical Wes Anderson world conjured from the Kunsthistorisches Museum archives

We look back at ten significant gifts and purchases that entered public collections in 2018

Museums are facing greater scrutiny over sponsorship and the artists they choose to display

The conservation of masterpieces is happening in the full glare of the public

The people, places and things that had a year to remember—or to forget