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This Golden Age silk-weaver's workshop has been refashioned into a stylish guesthouse, says Sarah Gilbert

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has reopened after a seven-month renovation.

Antoni Tàpies was recovering from a lung infection in a mountain sanatorium during his late teens when he began reading the fiction and philosophy that would shape his later oeuvre. The year was 1942.

In one year, Picasso staged his first show, lost his soulmate, and forged the giddying range of styles that revealed his pedigree and future

The Courtauld Gallery, which has brought us a succession of tightl focused small exhibitions in recent years, has come up with another real stunner. Becoming Picasso is the story of the Spanish painter’s arrival – brash, determined and hungry for the bohemian life – in the French capital in 1901.

A Georgian woman who claimed to be 132-years-old - making her the world’s oldest human being ever - has died.

Museum finds secret work - on canvas it thought was worthless

Private collection

Antoni Tapies was the most important Catalan artist of the 20th century. He was a self-taught painter and sculptor, his later works instantly recognisable for their stark contrasts of colour, incorporation of found materials and widespread use of written language and geometric symbols.

Baltimore Museum of Art

A composition – ‘putting together’ – can be paint on paper, or notes in a piece of music.

Art historians say it was suicide – but a new book claims he met his demise in a shooting accident