Reports of atrocities in the Ethiopian region include the targeting of Tigray’s unparallelled cultural treasures, writes Jacopo Gnisci

The architect and designer’s reputation stands higher than ever – but the source of his talent remains elusive

In 2006, Jonathan Yeo painted Prince Philip’s portrait – and as as the artist recalls, the sittings were invigorating if at times nerve-wracking

Celebrating the careers of two pioneering Renaissance women

John-Paul Stonard visits the Museo Nacional de Antropología and is impressed by how it connects ancient civilisations with the present day

The colourful TV chef makes an unlikely subject for fine art – but for the painter Lydia Blakeley, he has all the right ingredients

A round-up of museums and archives that have released high resolution images into the public domain

The designer’s favourite museum is the Wallace Collection, so it’s no wonder her clothes are full of flourishes from Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard

Museums in England won’t reopen until May but shops and gyms are set to open in April. The government has to prioritise, but why does culture come last?

Thomas Marks talks to Mark Gatiss about his new film, John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art, and his lifelong fascination with the painter’s work

You’ve heard about the Extinction Rebellion protests… but a 19th-century cat artist is also doing his bit to bring London to a standstill

The Great Pompeii Project’s restoration of the site has led to a stream of exciting discoveries, writes Matthew Nicholls

A round-up of museums and archives that have released high resolution images into the public domain

The 12th-century castle and surrounding town, located some 250 miles from London, have long attracted visually attentive visitors

Peter Frankopan sees ’Scythians: Warriors of Ancient Siberia’ at the British Museum

In his woodcuts and lithographs the Norwegian artist plumbed the depths of desire, anxiety and grief

The V&A says it’s protecting the jobs of librarians (for now), but the fate of the greatest art library in the UK remains uncertain

Kaywin Feldman, director of Minneapolis Institute of Art, sets out the need for agile cultural leadership to meet the challenges of a volatile world

Thomas Marks talks to Mark Gatiss about his new film, John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art, and his lifelong fascination with the painter’s work

Although she struggled to forge a career, Affonso never gave up making art, as two overlapping exhibitions in Lisbon reveal

The artist discusses his unorthodox methods, his long partnership with the late Jeanne-Claude, and finally being allowed to wrap the Arc de Triomphe

In this exhibition at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, three masterpieces illustrate Caravaggio’s short but intense and highly influential career

Tom Fleming looks at the lives that John Craxton, Nikos Ghika, and Patrick Leigh Fermor led in Crete

A show at the Louvre explores the rise, the fall and what remains of the ancient Hittites

The National Gallery’s acquisition of a self-portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi is welcome – not least because baroque women artists never got the attention they deserved

When Marie Antoinette had a theatre built at Versailles, her play-acting took to a stage of its own – and now this splendid interior has been meticulously restored

An exhibition at the Whitney explores the artist’s life-long fascination with the city

We will never defeat the notion that art history is the preserve of the privileged, if we stop people from learning about it

Lubaina Himid is Apollo’s Artist of the Year 2017. She spoke to Imelda Barnard about her recent shows, making art in the 1980s, and her role as a curator

The ancient cathedral buildings of England will need far greater financial help than they currently receive if they are to stave off ruin

Otto Saumarez Smith makes the case for seeing power-station cooling towers as a graceful presence in the landscape

Celebrating the careers of two pioneering Renaissance women

The restored tomb of Augustus reopened this month – and an extensive new website gives a good sense of what has happened to it over the past two thousand years, writes Matthew Nicholls

The under-representation of women by commercial art galleries contributes to their lower prices. Gabrielle Schwarz looks at how this can change

The museum’s gallery of historic plaster casts – newly restored – has long inspired conflicting responses

The artist‘s designs for Elizabeth David’s cookery books evoke a happy world of fine living and dining

‘Mackintosh Architecture’, a display of Scottish artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s architectural drawings and prints, is at RIBA, London, until 23 May.

How to succeed as a woman painter in 17th-century England? A supportive husband, royal patronage and mentorship from Van Dyck certainly helped, writes Breeze Barrington

In 17th and 18th centuries artists at the Pahari courts found new ways to represent the gods, writes Louise Nicholson

When Prévost painted his panorama from the tower of St Margaret’s Church, he captured a city on the cusp of change, writes Gillian Darley

Gavin Stamp on a ‘splendid book’ charting the early history of photography, and its development in Scotland

Reports of atrocities in the Ethiopian region include the targeting of Tigray’s unparallelled cultural treasures, writes Jacopo Gnisci

Late medieval gold is vanishingly rare, so a metal detectorist’s discovery may be a truly spectacular find, writes Christina J. Faraday

There was no time for grand plans after the Great Fire of 1666. London was rebuilt according to its inhabitants’ needs – and is so much the better for it.

The 15th-century painter is widely considered without equal among Spanish artists of his time

The actor talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about his ‘addiction’ to collecting art – from Tintin to Tracey Emin

Gillian Darley visits the recreated private apartments and model room of Sir John Soane

Over the centuries Notre-Dame de Paris has become much more than a place of worship – it is a symbol of a nation

‘Charles I: King and Collector’ has won the Apollo Exhibition of the Year Award 2018. Michael Prodger looks back at this major act of historical reconstruction

Katlijne Van der Stighelen on her 25-year-long quest to get recognition for a neglected baroque painter

The Met explores how the horrors of the First World War war were captured by artists, in a display the ranges from prints to ‘trench art’

The novelist’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy suggestively fills in what art historians can only guess at, writes Christina J. Faraday

The three watercolours – one of which is currently under export bar in the UK – are ravishing essays in light and colour, writes Andrew Wilton

The artist talks to Rachel Wetzler about photographing herself in fictional scenarios – and why we shouldn’t think of the results as self-portraits

The ancient cathedral buildings of England will need far greater financial help than they currently receive if they are to stave off ruin

Encyclopaedia, devotional guide and storybook in one, the bestiary was hugely popular in the Middle Ages

Luxury brands are certainly contributing to the conservation of Venice – but massive advertisements on historic buildings are starting to spoil the views

The great painter of urban solitude was also a dab hand at empty expanses, writes Nicholas Hatfull – from dunes and forests to the open road

The great painter of urban solitude was also a dab hand at empty expanses, writes Nicholas Hatfull – from dunes and forests to the open road