‘That hyena in petticoats’: how artists have portrayed Mary Wollstonecraft
The pioneering advocate for women’s rights has inspired many attempts to catch her likeness and spirit – but what can these portraits tell us about her legacy?
The pioneering advocate for women’s rights has inspired many attempts to catch her likeness and spirit – but what can these portraits tell us about her legacy?
The exciting recent discovery of a geoglyph in the Nazca desert poses many puzzles
Artemisia National Gallery, London 3 October–24 January 2021 This display under Letizia Treves’s expert curation gathered 30 works firmly attributed to Gentileschi and set them amid compelling biographical material. The drama of her life story, this display demonstrated, is exceeded only by the drama in her paintings. Leonardo da Vinci Musée du Louvre, Paris 24 […]
The Age of Undress: Art, Fashion and the Classical Ideal in the 1790s Amelia Rauser Yale University Press This thought-provoking book looks at the vogue for ‘Grecian dress’ prevalent in Europe in the last decade of the 18th century. Rauser argues that in performances as ‘living statues’, women were making an important contribution to the […]
The duo’s wry installations uncover the realities architecture often hides – and examine how buildings can manipulate people
A film and a series of watercolour-on-silk paintings at Chisenhale Gallery reflect on the ‘beauty and suffering’ of the Mekong River
On Wednesday, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) withdrew paintings by Clyfford Still and Brice Marden from the Contemporary Art auction at Sotheby’s New York and also paused a private sale of a work by Andy Warhol. The move came after a week of mounting criticism of the deaccessions to fund a $65m ‘Endowment for […]
A memoir as raw and unfiltered as the photographs that made Bailey's name at Vogue, this curious book offers up some brilliant anecdotes but ultimately lacks focus
Photographs show that Walter and Louise Arensberg’s art-filled house in the Hollywood Hills was constantly in flux
This much-anticipated exhibition does justice to the restless creativity of Artemisia Gentileschi in her many guises
The financial impact of Covid-19 forced British Airways to sell some of its most valuable art over the summer. Will other businesses follow suit?
The photographer’s first UK retrospective explores his abiding interest in the experience of outsiders in society
With new labels for some of its most contested objects the museum is engaging in an important conversation – but has it got the tone wrong?
Digitising an important collection of manuscripts in the Khalidi Library in Old Jerusalem is a painstaking task
Timothy Brittain-Catlin’s account of Edwardian houses challenges many misconceptions
Although the film-maker usually used still images as a means to other ends, his photographs are a useful introduction to his work
Although the composer spent most of his life elsewhere, his ghost is ubiquitous in the Polish capital
In a joint statement released on Monday, but not widely reported until later in the week, the four museums due to host a Philip Guston retrospective announced that that they are delaying the show until 2024: ‘We are postponing the exhibition until a time at which we think that the powerful message of social and […]
The 14th-century pleasure palace has reopened after a two-year renovation – and its mysteries are as diverting as ever
A George Michael mural and a mountain rose-flavoured soda are among the contributions to the borough’s inaugural biennial