George Lucas and Mellody Hobson's billion-dollar museum opens in Los Angeles today, arguing that illustration, comics and cinema belong in the same rooms as painting and sculpture.
The Musée Jacquemart-André opens the first full Tintoretto retrospective France has ever held — not, as first billed, the one Venice withheld. On prestezza, and what took Paris so long.
The Turner Prize goes to Middlesbrough this autumn — the first edition ever held in a university. On four shortlisted artists and what a touring prize is actually for.
Frieze London returns to Regent's Park in October with a new curated section from Beijing's Carol Yinghua Lu and nearly 300 galleries across two fairs. On what the map now looks like.
In 1981 a Sardinian artist tied her entire village together with eighteen miles of blue ribbon. On Maria Lai, thread as language, and an artwork ahead of its theory.
A stonemason's son from Orani fled fascist Italy, invented a sculptural technique on a Long Island beach, and ended up shaping American modernism from the inside. On Costantino Nivola.
On the American painter's radical handwriting - how scrawl, smear and classical reference created one of the twentieth century's most distinctive bodies of work.