• T.S. Eliot’s attitude to visual art • An interview with Giorgio Griffa • The Penn Museum gets a makeover • Syrian artists in a time of war
PLUS: Modigliani, Japanese bamboo art, how to settle art disputes, and much more
Liliane Lijn | Picasso | Mughal painting | Impressionism
Jan Švankmajer | Pompeii | Cat ladies
Museum of West African Art | Jeremy Frey | Ed Ruscha
Napoleon Bonaparte | Caspar David Friedrich | the Impressionists
The museum is set to close in 2025, leaving a hole in the city’s arts scene and adding to growing disquiet about its general direction
An exhibition at the Soane Museum shows that technical drawings of buildings are often more complex than they may seem
The artist did his best to destroy any traces of his work as a designer, but the little that survives offers new perspectives on his art
When it comes to conjuring the uncanny atmosphere and impossible logic of dreams, the Czech film-maker has few equals