Do initiatives like Google Art Project help us to see more — or less?

A new book by Bruce Altshuler explores the history of postwar exhibitions

From the Louvre to the Hermitage, historical collections are being liberated from their museum walls - with varying degrees of success 

How the art of the past informs that of the present

How the display of art in previous centuries can help us rethink the exhibition industry

The cats of Louis Wain

The intertwined histories of art criticism and poetry

In the early 20th century, Hilma af Klint created abstract paintings under the direction of a spirit guide. What impact does the Swedish artist’s work have on the art-historical canon?

1913, a year of cultural, artistic and technological revolution that transformed the world

The difficulties of defining and exhibiting Indian Modernism

The Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses his favourite art works and how he would like to have dinner with Rubens

A selective history of things on tables

19 artists write about a work of art that has influenced them

The oldest known face of a woman

Collagist John Stezaker and writer-curator David Campany discuss the legacy of Surrealist encounters with photography