The graphic designer and decorative artist mastered any number of crafts and his work deserves to be much better known
Chinese art from the 14th century onwards has long ruled the art market, but prices for work from earlier periods are catching up fast
More and more artists are partnering with online platforms to sell limited editions of their work – and it’s paying off handsomely, for now
For its 27th edition, the fair is setting up shop in the galleries of London’s auction houses and welcoming a number of new exhibitors
Recent results for the London auctions may be a sign that things aren’t all doom and gloom
Artists from Helen Frankenthaler to Marlene Dumas have poured and splattered paint on to their canvases with a sense of enviable abandon
The jeweller generally reveals precious little about its process, but Apollo gains access to the site in Paris where the magic happens
What can a bronze Han dynasty horse tell us about status anxiety and the afterlife? Ching-Ling Wang of the Rijksmuseum talks of grave matters
In designing his eccentric inventions, the mid-century artist Thomas Wilfred created a whole new genre of art, the influence of which can still be felt today
Lucy Ellmann is troubled by an eerily realistic 19th-century painting of a cat behind bars
The museum holds the world’s largest collection of Japanese art outside Japan itself – and now has suitably meditative spaces to match
The replacement of Boswell’s department store with a luxury hotel is part of a beautification process that has gathered pace in recent years
The language we use to describe the sweet course at the end of a meal is more revealing than we think
Given Hitler’s unrealised plans for a museum of looted art in Linz, the futuristic Ars Electronica festival is a triumph for the city, but there’s no room for complacence
Château Smith Haut Lafitte is a vineyard sprinkled with the sensibility of an English country garden
A leading dealer in Indian paintings and textiles, she also has an extensive collection of 20th-century haute couture – and the two seem to go together nicely
As his 24-hour film The Clock returns to MoMA, Christian Marclay talks about working with sound and images – and bridging the divide between the two artistic worlds
An imaginative exhibition in The Hague stresses how much the fashion house still owes to its founder
A new book by Steven Brindle lovingly catalogues the lavish interiors that could once be found in London’s grandest houses but are now lost
Photography largely wiped out the trend for miniatures, but the genre still says much about how we relate to images today
The ideas and images of the artists who unleashed their unconscious on the world a century ago are now part of the fabric of everyday life
The architect’s pioneering modernist buildings have outlasted critics and changing trends, as a monumental new biography makes clear