Christopher Turner is Keeper of Art, Architecture, Photography and Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Bowler hats off to a new biography of the painter that chips away at the Belgian’s bourgeois veneer
The conceptual artist and writer wasn’t afraid to stir things up, but he was also a great spotter and supporter of other people’s talent
Peter Fischli has curated a show about the demise of painting – but his take is that it’s still very much alive
Heir to a railway fortune and an 8,000-acre estate in West Sussex, Edward James transformed his homes into total works of art – with a little help from Dalí and friends
Georg Baselitz says it makes the viewer pay closer attention – but plenty of paintings have simply been upended due to gallerists’ gaffes
Palazzo Poggi houses the extraordinary 18th-century creations of a school dedicated to wax modelling – invaluable tools for medical students at the time
Before ‘Big Brother’, there was Biosphere 2 – an experiment in utopian living that left its participants low on food and short of breath
The shop window has long been a playground for artists – and looks set to be so more than ever in the months ahead
Museum MORE has done a great deal to invigorate a genre once seen as hopelessly old-fashioned
Four centuries after the first English slave ship arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, the president of Ghana is urging members of the African diaspora to discover their roots
