The National Gallery throws its director to the wolves
Guests at the opening of ‘Saint Francis of Assisi’ included two very fetching wolf-dogs. Rakewell regrets not making their acquaintance.
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
When Simon Pettet moved into Dennis Severs’ House in Spitalfields he began to channel the 18th century in the 1980s
The Art Gallery of New South Wales’s extension is too populist and commercially minded for some – but it is full of possibilities
Diane Smyth considers the state of private and public photography collections in the UK
After decades of globalisation, the centre of gravity is shifting back to the Big Apple
Drawings, prints and collages were important to the artist’s process – and the market now values them accordingly