Emily Mortimer’s TV adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel is a wonderfully glamorous affair – and its anachronisms are whip-smart
Toys aren’t just for children, at least if a 250-year-old musical elephant at the grandest house in Buckinghamshire is anything to go by
In her portraits of imaginary people, the artist conjures a world that feels joyfully real
Archie Brennan was a committed craftsman with a fondness for optical illusions and a strong idealistic streak
If the cancelled sale of a Basquiat NFT is anything to go by, disputes about intellectual property will affect the course of the big NFT adventure
The German artist’s greatest work was himself – so marking his centenary makes for a curatorial conundrum
Installing a floor in the Colosseum will make the ruin less familiar – but may help us understand the original experience of the building
The one tool Julian Opie could least do without? His eyes, he says – although he’d be pretty lost without his computer too
As the last rulers of pre-Islamic Iran, the Sasanians crafted a grand courtly culture that would go on to influence kings from the Balkans to Bengal
A town in Japan has spent coronavirus relief funds on a giant squid sculpture – a fine addition to the tradition of squid art, says Rakewell
Plus: the Istanbul Biennial has been postponed to 2022, and more stories
The Scottish artist has built a derelict toyshop, home to a cartoon princess, in the woods of Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh
A display in Edinburgh of the painter’s stirring seascapes marks the centenary of her birth
An exhibition of contemporary art inaugurates new gallery spaces – part of a $233m revamp – at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
From cabbages with chicken feet to a rhino-shaped desk – a survey of Les Lalanne at the Clark Art Institute
The mysterious affliction usually only assails art buffs in Florence – but with many museums finally set to reopen, will visitors start dropping like flies?
The artist, poet and musician Heather Phillipson may live and work in London – but her main studio, she says, is in her head
Hanging a plastic skeleton of Napoleon’s favourite horse above his tomb may not be as wildly inappropriate as it seems
The City of London has approved its own plans to demolish eight historic buildings in the Fleet Street conservation area – so what real protection exists for the city’s heritage?
The Amazon series limps through its art history but is just about salvaged by its endearingly goofy hero
The former imperial capital is due for another reinvention – but in shaking up the urban plan, the Indian government faces accusations that it is merely rebuilding the city in its own image
The painter’s tender portraits of slum life are being celebrated across Scotland in her centenary year
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The sad, shameful demise of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry
The appeal to save Britain’s oldest place of manufacture has been rejected and the foundry will become a boutique hotel. How could Historic England have let this happen?