Return to magnificent maastricht

A brass-inlaid rosewood table, three of four Seasons bursting with colour and a rare pair of powder-blue vases should draw every eye at the forthcoming Decorative Art Fair in London

Together with ancient armour, Egyptian cats and illuminated manuscripts, this year’s Frieze Masters sees a colourful work by an even more colourful character, a Nigerian prince who set out to make ‘contemporary Yoruba traditional art’

Rufus Bird detects a return to buying art for pleasure

Exhibition of the week Theatre Picasso Tate ...

PAD returns to London this month with an exciting mix of 20th-century and contemporary design pieces, including bronze lights, sculptural vessels and a collection of tactile chairs

Orlando Whitfield wades into the murky backwaters of the multibillion-pound art market to tell the true stories of the world’s most thrilling frauds, forgeries and heists