For artisan Helena Loermans, uncovering the intricate weaves of artists' canvases is like “a detective story”

Hundreds gather as the Getty convenes the first major international conference on the issue in 45 years

Pleasures of Italy canvas on show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin throws light on late activist’s lovers and interests

On the podcast, we speak to the German artist about his new works inspired by String Theory, now on show at White Cube in London

Dusti Bongé was an artist who lived and worked in the Deep South and who was a versatile, if little known, artist

The artist’s altercation with a cab driver produced one of many revealing paintings being exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts

How the New York museum has remixed its unrivalled collection ahead of its 21 October re-opening

As an exhibition opens at the Sir John Soane's Museum, the curator David Bindman takes us from Covent Garden and Grosvenor Square to “Guzzledown”

Traditional medium is back in fashion amid looming Brexit

With three separate shows of his work taking place in London during Frieze Week, the German artist's market is heating up

Bertrand de Royere provides a thorough examination of the life the 19th century decorator and furniture designer Pelagio Palagi

Best known as a portrait painter, the artist was also fascinated by plant life

Major survey at Palazzo Reale will include his "most difficult" works as well as early pieces that inspired the Surrealists

Research project at the Stedelijk Museum sheds light on some of the artist’s techniques

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

The project will be launched on the heels of the UN Climate Action Summit in New York

Exhibition at the Centre Pompidou focuses on the artist’s post-pope period, which has received less critical examination

Aim of Australian government’s war art scheme was to prioritise first-hand representations of the conflict

Work on the battle-scarred 39 sq. m Papal feast scene, housed in a monastery in Vicenza, should be completed by early 2021

We revisit our exclusive interview with the British artist. Plus, expert Martin Gayford tells us about Hockney, Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon and others in post-war London

The authors ask “What is Islamic about ‘Islamic’ art?”

A government grant for works of importance helps to block departure of the painting from the country

Artist’s works on iconoclasm in Mosul are currently on show at the Imperial War Museum in London

Works from the 19th-century helped construct a national identity in Denmark that is ripe for discussion now, says curator

The Victorian artist group explored the connections between art and scientific observation to enhance art’s moral purpose

Painted before Donald Trump disparaged the city, Derrick Adams's new works celebrate family life there

These notebooks reveal how the artist discovered the "real" Orient in North Africa and southern Spain and adjusted his paintings accordingly

The second Duke of Orléans’ assembly of his famous art collection may have been a covert preparation for seizing the throne of France

Part of the Wellington Collection in London, the picture was originally believed to be by a minor north Italian artist

Exhibition of marine paintings will be joined later this month by a survey of the artist's Civil War illustrations at Harvard Art Museums