We love a good story about a missing painting missing. This one starts in Christmas of 2008: a Hungarian art historian is at home with his young daughter Lola, watching the popular children’s film Stuart Little, when he notices a painting in the background that shakes him up so much, he almost drops his daughter…

The goal is not to expose the “slipups” of the masters but to understand the human brain.

Pablo Picasso's problematic relationship with the opposite sex has long been documented: by the women who shared his life and by the art critics and biographers who relayed the artist's musings, such as "there are only two kinds of women: goddesses and doormats". As the Picasso Museum in Paris invites feminist artist ORLAN to revisit his portraits in "Weeping Women Are Angry", we speak to art critic and author Judith Benhamou. She tells us why "like many geniuses, Picasso was a monster" and how his sexual appetite fuelled his creative impulses.

Feline geoglyph from 200-100BC emerges during work at Unesco world heritage site

The painting’s yellow pigment has been flaking and fading for years.

This is why we can't have nice things. By Liz Publika.

A lead mineral called plumbonacrite was used to create a thick, paste-like paint.

Edvard Munch's painting has become one of the most ubiquitous images on the planet.

Experimental psychology is providing concrete answers to some of the great philosophical debates about art and its meaning. By Ellen Winner.

Where are all the beautiful, powerful, black-skinned females from mythology and history? They were erased by Western art, argues Sophia Smith Galer.

In private, the Pre-Raphaelite painter had a silly side

Groundbreaking Channel 4 series from 1998 exploring Outsider Art, in which Jarvis Cocker travels the globe in search of large-scale visionary environments. [All three episodes inside the snap.]

How is hawkish fanaticism whipped up at home? One exhibition offers insight. By Bradley Anderson.

When the war finally came to an end, artists on both sides had to face the problem of how to paint the peace. By Michael Prodger.

Painted Spanish sculpture had flesh tones and realistic wounds and tears and glass eyes, and it gave Protestants the creeps. But here’s the thing: Italian sculptors of the Renaissance also colored their works and were seemingly happy to do so. If we tend to forget this, it may be because the evidence we are looking at has been rigged: painted terracottas of the Renaissance have been stripped of their color, just as innumerable wood carvings of the northern schools have been stripped and “antiqued” in a manner acceptable to past taste and the antiques trade. By James Fenton.

Toward a Concrete Utopia focuses on the period of intense construction in Yugoslavia between 1948 and 1980

More than 7600 Munch sketches, many previously unknown, have been published for unrestricted use. Among them are the sketches showing how «The Scream» looked before the world-famous version.

Cultural histories of unusual hues. By Katy Kelleher.

In art, fashion, and eccentric hairstyles, the arrival of the first giraffe in France in the 1820s caused a sensation in culture. By Allison Meier.

Always cherchez la femme, people. By Priscilla Frank.