London’s most gruesome museum is back – and weirder than ever
The Hunterian Museum has reconsidered the ethics of showing human remains without sacrificing its weird charm
The Hunterian Museum has reconsidered the ethics of showing human remains without sacrificing its weird charm
How the Missouri-born dancer became a sensation in Parisian night clubs and a champion of civil rights in the United States
The actor best known for playing the saintly Melanie Hamilton in ‘Gone with the Wind’ was made of much sterner stuff in real life
For too long, Britain’s lack of regard for the song contest has been rewarded by poor results. It’s time to make more of an effort.
These photographs of domestic scenes and everyday encounters are very familiar and very unsettling
Guests at the opening of ‘Saint Francis of Assisi’ included two very fetching wolf-dogs. Rakewell regrets not making their acquaintance.
A trip through the Condé Nast archives now owned by François Pinault suggests that wit is no longer in vogue
The sensational appearance of a cockroach at this year’s Met Gala leads Rakewell to reflect on other star turns performed by the creepy-crawly
The joint acquisition of Joshua Reynolds’s ‘Portrait of Mai (Omai)’ by the National Portrait Gallery and the J. Paul Getty Museum has been confirmed
At the age of 91, the artist has produced a series of remarkable self-portraits, now on show at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
There’s strong competition in the Big Apple this month, with a martial portrait by Rubens and a late landscape by Henri Rousseau among the contenders
The artist starts the day by watering the plants on his balcony from where he can watch people eating at a neighbouring restaurant
A catalogue of the museum’s unrivalled collection of silver and gold is a thing of beauty
A show about the many variations and chequered history of the fabric even lets visitors see what’s worn under the kilt
The Menil Collection in Houston looks at the groundbreaking work of a curator who brought a new generation of American artists into museums
Three hundred years after the composer moved into his London townhouse, what does the art collection he amassed there tell us about his music?
The painter who never stopped seeing her subjects as individuals described her works as ‘pictures of people’ rather than ‘portraits’
Pedestrianisation means that one of London's finest churches is now the centre of attention again
The Musée Jacquemart-André shows that the painter was always open to new influences
From votive offerings to anatomical models, wax is the perfect material for blurring the boundaries between art and life