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Clues in painting suggest Francis Williams successfully managed to compute and witness trajectory of Halley’s comet over Jamaica in 1759

Despite its corny title, Vive L’Impressionnisme!, which recently opened at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, is well worth seeing. Marking the 150th anniversary of the first impressionist exhibition, the show tells the story of how one of the movement’s founders, Claude Monet, and his contemporaries were supported by a…

Officials say the long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum will partially open its main galleries on Wednesday, showcasing 12 halls that exhibit aspects of ancient Egypt

From specialising in massive sculptural installations and folklore-inspired canvases to textile collages... these are the creatives to watch

The Architectural Association’s ‘Ripple Ripple Rippling’ is not your typical architecture show, taking an anthropological look at the flux between rural and urban, and bringing a part of China to Bedford Square in London

“One of the funniest things about Brian is that he’s beautifully lawless in how he works"

This touring show celebrates once-maligned fibre in all its wildly imaginative forms, riffing on familiar yarns and fabrics to reach less obvious realms of thought

Ahead of the 24th International exhibition at the Triennale Milano next year, 26 leading thinkers, curators and activists unpicked the theme ‘Inequalities’

The artist is after serious dialogue with the BM’s collection, not finger-wagging – and this is a show the institution absolutely should be doing