Eero Saarinen's US embassy building in Mayfair has long been undervalued, but its conversion into a luxury hotel may help revive its reputation
Efforts to return works looted by the Nazis are becoming ever more complicated
From a Louis XVI clock to an Eileen Gray armchair once owned by Yves Saint Laurent, there's something for everyone at FAB Paris
Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth are ever in demand, but the market for their lesser-known contemporaries is growing too
The Egyptian artist’s ingenious operas, which he writes, scores, designs and directs, play around with our ideas about history
Hopes are high that the second half of 2025 – like the restoration of Holbein’s portrait of Anne of Cleves – will offer a much-needed refresh
The emergence of Le Creuset cookware a century ago sparked a change in how home kitchens both looked and functioned
Little known for centuries after his death in 1652, except as a French follower of Caravaggio, the painter is now rightly recognised as a singular talent
While exiled in the city, Marie Antoinette’s favourite artist struck up a close friendship with her own idol, Angelica Kauffman
This magnificent gilded cup fuses organic form with astonishing craftsmanship, explains Caterina Badan of the Schroder Collection
In works such as ‘The Communist: A Political Meeting’, the Welsh painter Evan Walters captured the hopes and fears of working-class communities
When Margaret Gardiner wasn’t collecting the work of modern British artists, she was urging them to join her in political protest
As emerging global powers are using culture to further their political and economic goals, is Britain keeping up?
The sculptures of Conrad Shawcross, several of which are installed in vineyards around the world, have a clear affinity with the craft of wine-making
At Hatchlands Park in Surrey, Alec Cobbe lives with the likes of Guercino, Allori and Titian – a fitting collection for the Renaissance man he is
A new book by Leslie Primo argues that cultural cross-pollination is at the heart of Britain’s national story
The Très Riches Heures, a rarely seen 15th-century book of hours begun by the three Limbourg brothers, was ever a star among manuscripts
A biography of the Purist artist Amédée Ozenfant brings welcome attention to an esoteric period of modernism
Paul Poiret over-extended himself in every way and died a commercial failure but a century later, his designs still have the power to startle
The artist’s early paintings were a necessary preparation for his pioneering less-is-more installations