Social history
For richer, for poorer: domestic life in 18th-century Ireland examined in new book
Scholarly essays examine how people lived, from poor tenant farmers to their whist-playing landlords
‘Living museum’ of British-Somali heritage heads to east London
Crowdfunded space aims to preserve community archive and support emerging artists
When nothing is sacred, nothing can be subversive: photographs of London’s Soho captured in catalogue
The area’s heyday in the mid 20th century has been obliterated by commercial exploitation
Twentieth-century American hopes and dreams are shown in black and white in this book of prints
Volume shows how the political and social aspirations of the Progressive Movement inspired American artists
Jacob Lawrence’s epic series depicting America's early struggles sets off on US tour
Twenty-three of the US artist’s surviving panels will be reunited for the first time in six decades at the Peabody Essex Museum
Medieval books’ margins are shown to be areas of dissent and fun, rather than mere doodling
The extra-textual decoration of medieval illuminated manuscripts are full of clues about sections of society normally overlooked by historians
New museum tells Palestinian stories in the centre of US politics
One-room space in Washington, DC, focuses on art and culture rather than “catastrophe”— but a section is dedicated to the 1948 mass exodus
National Museum of African American History and Culture to unveil rediscovered Harriet Tubman photo
She is “relaxed and very stylish” in the portrait
Chunks of British Parliament go on sale
Historic Pugin floor tiles, on which many a prime minister has trodden, available for £200 a piece
Murders most foul: Gainsborough family revenge killings trigger reassessment of artist’s early years
New research reveals that two members of Thomas Gainsborough's family were killed over a financial dispute when the artist was a child
Beacons of empathy: the forgotten women who brought the Foundling Museum to life
The portraits of men in the London museum's picture gallery are being replaced by portraits of women who supported a vision to protect young children
Russian authorities force Gulag museum to close
Volunteer-run organisation has been based in former Soviet secret police headquarters for the past decade
Canada struggles with monuments tied to colonialism
Echoing a conflict in the US, the nation contends with calls to remove controversial memorials
Statues are part of history, but do a poor job of recording it
Monuments tell us more about those who set them up than those they represent, says Classics professor Matthew Sears
Siberian museum memorialises the Romanovs in house where they were imprisoned
Museum of the Family of Emperor Nicholas II in Tobolsk is Russia's first devoted to 'royal martyrs'
Moscow museum opens archives of Stalin's Gulag labour camps
New research centre helps descendants discover fate of their family members
The struggle behind Tate Modern's birth
Recently opened Tate archives reveal wrangling over division of British and international art in early 1990s
Alabama memorial confronts America’s racist history
A site dedicated to the 4,400 victims of lynching and a museum about the country’s legacy of inequality opens
Public sculpture will commemorate Chattanooga lynching victim 100 years on
Memorial part of push for new works that challenge history of white supremacy in the US
V&A opens dialogue on looted Ethiopian treasures
Director pledges rethink on objects seized by British troops in 19th-century Africa
Rashid Johnson starts filming Native Son in Chicago
The US artist finds contemporary resonance in the 1940s novel
'Issue one came out in less degraded times: more idealistic, less puffed up by PR machines'
Anna Somers Cocks, founding editor and chairman, looks back
Letters of note | Featuring Zaha Hadid, Picasso's biographer, a prison warden and many more
Selected correspondence from down the years
Then & Now: boom, bust and rebirth of Damien Hirst
How The Art Newspaper has covered the artist's bullish decadence
Then & Now: "Modern art is destroying itself," warned our first issue
Museums have since devoted sizeable resources
Then & Now: how The Art Newspaper shaped UK restitution law
Featuring a 900-year-old missal looted during the Second World War
Auction of France's May '68 protest posters to mark 50th anniversary
Artcurial to offer posters with a revolutionary spirit from the collection of Laurent Storch
Argentina's female art workers call for gender parity on International Women's Day
The group, Nosotras Proponemos, has events planned at art institutions throughout the country during March