The ulterior motifs of Aby Warburg
A new life of a very singular art historian places his work in the intellectual contexts of his time
A new life of a very singular art historian places his work in the intellectual contexts of his time
Art by the movement’s best-known practitioners still fetches huge sums, but it’s work by women and artists of colour that is really taking off
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Aaron Betsky’s account of the wildest visions architecture has to offer is full of buildings that haunt the structures of the real world
The eyewateringly expensive banquet President Macron held for Charles III belongs to a long history of conspicuous royal consumption
The term ‘Kafkaesque’ is in constant use and misuse, but, a century on from his death, are we any closer to understanding the man himself?
Modern creations may offer a riot of flavours but in form they’re no match for the fantastical shapes of the past
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Norman Foster’s City Hall has been denied listed status a second time. But the more important question is: when will the capital be run from County Hall again?
The story of Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin’s competing artistic outlooks is told with verve in Sjeng Scheijen’s new book
The controversial proposal to put contemporary stained glass into the cathedral is part of a centuries-long debate about a surprisingly mutable material
The new Staffordshire volume marks the completion of the revised <i>Buildings of England</i> series – and the end of a publishing era
Gardens aren’t just lovesome things. In the writer’s gently rambling book on the subject, they are seedbeds of rebellion too
The Fitzrovia Chapel is an atmospheric choice of venue for an exhibition with an occult edge
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A tender portrait by Gauguin of his young son and a bronze lion by Rembrandt Bugatti are among the most significant works to have entered a public collection in the last month
From Louis XIV to Catherine the Great, monarchs didn’t just commission ambitious projects, but also played a serious part in the design process
Though its market is comparatively young, demand for the traditional arts of the Himalayas is steadily climbing
Power is set to change hands next month in Downing Street, but whether that will be enough to fix Britain’s funding of the arts is another matter
Drawing models in the flesh has been in and out of fashion over the centuries, but the London institution’s postgrad programme is breathing new life into the practice