Jean-Léon Gérôme

Seeing is believing: Gérôme and Pakistan shows mark 20 years of museum building in Qatar

Exhibitions offer fresh looks at a once globally famous French 19th-century Orientalist artist and Pakistan’s embrace of modernity

Booksreview

New Orientalists: a thoughtful book on the rise and decline of Western artists in the Middle East

There is plenty to enjoy in this account of a group of travelling painters who were not only accomplished but also determined, brave and hardy

US museum criticises use of Gérôme’s Slave Market in German right-wing campaign

Anti-immigration party AfD is using provocative 19th-century work on its posters for the upcoming European elections

Art marketarchive

Auction records off the beaten track

A new Orientalist star overturns Gérôme; Italo-Swiss Alpine artist fetches $9.5 million and “The big wave” sweeps photography to new heights