The German director brought fairy tales to gorgeous, animated life with her silhouette films – the earliest of which is as remarkable now as it was in 1926
Max Norman visits the very peculiar home of an eccentric count who tried to derive electricity from vegetables
The artist’s commercial cat illustrations were hugely popular in his lifetime, but his series of psychedelic kitties have attracted rather more serious attention
The artist’s pampered pooch was often seen as an alter ego for the ‘pugnacious’ man himself
Art historians may be sceptical about artificial intelligence, but machine learning might enlarge our capacity for observation – and even revive connoisseurship
Philip Barantini shot his 90-minute movie about the drama of a busy restaurant service in one take – and it's nail-biting stuff
The artist’s first performance in a decade was a lot, even for the most ‘open-minded’ onlookers
The vast waterfront complex is a fitting emblem of the painter’s outsized importance to the city
The Transcendental Painting Group in New Mexico was sidelined for its esoteric beliefs, but its members are slowly entering the mainstream
As the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. celebrates its centenary, the museum is also looking firmly to the future
In museums, minerals are both everyday matter and also objects of scientific interest – but they carry more intangible meanings too
Luxury brands are certainly contributing to the conservation of Venice – but massive advertisements on historic buildings are starting to spoil the views
The novelist revered Raphael’s Sistine Madonna – and Holbein’s Dead Christ almost induced an epileptic fit
In Istanbul, an exhibition of works created by women between 1850 and 1950 has made some impressive finds
It’s not easy to repackage a museum devoted to a Victorian missionary, but the David Livingstone Birthplace Museum has pulled it off
Time is suspended in Nicolas Poussin’s paintings of dancers who revel in the viewer’s attention
The discovery that the astrologer’s ‘scrying glass’ is made of obsidian from Mexico points to the complex global webs surrounding many Tudor objects
The spirit of innovation and manufacture lives on in the Midlands city – as a redeveloped museum on the site of the old silk mill makes clear
From street actions to art exhibitions, the organisation empowers homeless people to tell their own stories
Oxford Botanic Garden has played a vital role in the evolution of plant science since it was founded 400 years ago
Painted in around 1625, the Penitent Mary Magdalene inspired a host of copies before disappearing. Now, it has resurfaced in a private collection
Will the glittering new arts complex bring about a ‘Bilbao effect’ in the southern French city?
Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown studied with their father and had close connections to the Pre-Raphaelites – but their achievements have been overlooked until now
Frustrated that memories of more hopeful times are fading, the artist Intissar Belaid is determined to preserve what she can
