History
UK exhibition uncovers holy link between Henry VIII’s rival wives Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon
Both British queens owned the same prayerbook, curators at Hever Castle in England have found
150 years of Australian art: a history of the Art Gallery of New South Wales
As the Sydney museum reopens, we look at its long history of supporting artists, and when it began to collect Indigenous art
New art from the ruins of Pompeii: archaeological site launches digital fellowships
Contemporary initiative also includes new book with contributions from more than 60 artists such as Adrian Villar Rojas, Lara Favaretto and Michael Rakowitz
From cosy to creepy: new displays at Bletchley Park muddle Britain's honourable Nazi-fighting history with a contested present
The museum—set inside a Buckinghamshire country house—has opened its largest ever gallery, called the Intelligence Factory, this week
Secrets of the Black Prince's tomb effigy in Canterbury Cathedral revealed by scientists
Sculpture atop the final resting place of the medieval knight and heir to Edward III has been examined by a team of researchers led by The Courtauld Institute of Art
The Greenwood Massacre, America’s ‘single worst incident of racial violence’, is remembered 100 years on
The historic example of domestic terrorism, when white mobs killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed businesses, finally gets due recognition
Off with her head! Infrared technology shows how a 15th-century French king used a paintbrush to replace one wife with another
Francis I of Brittany had his first wife painted over in a medieval prayer book before giving it to his new spouse, research at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum shows
Ancient ABCs: The alphabet’s ‘missing link’ discovered in Israel
Ink writing found on pottery sherds suggests the system spread into the Levant earlier than originally thought
Dr Fauci’s 3-D printed coronavirus model given to Smithsonian
The educational aide will be part of a forthcoming exhibition at the National Museum of American History
Mary Rose Museum 'appalled' by David Starkey's racist remarks as British historian steps down as trustee
Tudor specialist has been widely condemned for remarks on slavery and Black Lives Matter in YouTube interview
Gunpowder, treason and plot: how artists have captured fireworks throughout history
In a special podcast episode we talk to Simon Werrett who has written a book on pyrotechnic arts in European history
Special: Fireworks! Picturing pyrotechnics with professor Simon Werrett
In honour of Bonfire Night in the UK this podcast looks at how artists—from Whistler to Cai Guo-Qiang—have captured fireworks
Berlin celebrates fall of the wall with art installations, projections and an app
A week-long festival for the 30th anniversary includes a banner of messages floating near the Brandenburg Gate
An artist’s memories of Tiananmen Square
The Bay Area artist Stella Zhang was a senior at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing during the student-led protests. She has created a new work based on those memories—and the government’s efforts to silence them
Dead kings and queens and where to find them
A dictionary of the burial places of the English and Scottish kings and queens (and their relations)
The changing face of Harlem through the eyes of photographers on show now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
93 works by 10 photographers track the evolution of this New York neighbourhood
Berlin Kulturforum surveys the long history of alchemy
Spanning 3000 years, the exhibition covers the Egyptian origins of alchemy to its influence on contemporary artists such as Koons
Purposeful destruction: Smashing art at the Tate Britain
Tate Britain traces the driving forces and ideologies behind a 500-year history of iconoclasm
Art and the appetite for destruction: Histories of British Iconoclasm on now at Tate Britain
Tate Britain examines the history of those who have targeted art, from Henry VIII to the present
From shtetl to spectacle at the Russian Jewish Museum and Centre of Tolerance
Constructivist-style bus garage transformed into high-tech Jewish museum in Moscow
Prosthetic technology in sport on display at the Wellcome Collection ahead of the Olympics and Paralympics
The Wellcome Collection puts its best (false) foot forward
Books in brief: the Medieval Warrior’s (Unofficial) Manual
The perfect reference book for those of us who cannot just offhand distinguish a gambeson from a hauberk
Books: Material culture and medieval "Hindu-Muslim" encounter
Objects of translation and the cultural interactions of Muslims and Hindus in the late 12th and early 13th centuries
The art world’s Christmas reading
Artists, collectors, critics, museum directors and auction house executives pick their holiday books
How Sami-Azar, head of Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art, has been the mediator that Iranian artists yearned for
With the view that creative outlet precedes change, Sami-Azar has begun to thaw segregationist policies that bar Iranian artists from international acclaim
Communist museum for Warsaw
It will include displays of photographs and posters, pieces of barbed wire, tools and clothes from the Gulags
A charmed couple: the art and life of Walter and Matilda Gay
A celebration of the Gilded Age couple famed for their taste and refinement
St Catherine's monastery: A short history, from Moses to the Arab-Israeli wars
The incredible longevity of the monastery - or mosque, for a period - can be attributed to its willingness to change with the times
Art in the media: History as a developing process
Lodz ghetto photos found in Vienna; Van Dyck reassessed; Tracey Emin in profile
Letter discovery suggests inter-war bell rivalry
The letter was written by Giacomo Boni and dates from 1925