Pub culture – maritime masterpieces at the Trafalgar Tavern
Pub landlord Frank Dowling has built a collection of museum-quality masterpieces and curios that testify to his love of London’s maritime history
Pub landlord Frank Dowling has built a collection of museum-quality masterpieces and curios that testify to his love of London’s maritime history
The Low Countries may not grow oranges and lemons, but the artists of the region certainly had a zest for them
This curious film about the painter Edward Brezinski suggests that not all forgotten artists are candidates for rehabilitation
It has become increasingly common for museums to invite artists to respond to their collections, but what kind of connections are we being invited to make?
Rakewell hopes the fashion house’s newest designer will bring everyone much happiness
The art journalist’s prized collection of handbags and eclectic furniture is up for sale at Bellmans later this month
A crowded display sees some 150 works of Abstract Expressionism clamouring for attention, but perhaps this is the point
The desirability of getting a day job in a museum can make it easy for prestigious institutions to take advantage of the artists who work in them
The Whitechapel Gallery brings together 150 paintings by 81 international women artists
Plus: a shake-up at DCMS, strengthening cultural ties between France and Saudi Arabia, and the rest of the week’s art news
A portrait of the 17th-century polymath and intellectual superstar Paolo Sarpi hangs in a corner of a house that once belonged to a wealthy tyrant
The luxury conglomerate led by the French tycoon presented a Caillebotte to the Musée d’Orsay this week, but that didn’t stop him being denounced by pension protesters
A first for the Frick and a Caillebotte at the Musée d'Orsay are among the most important works to enter museum collections this month
The couple’s apartment in New York contains Chinese antiquities of impeccable provenance, as well as photographs of illustrious forebears
The French-Algerian artist explains her fascination with the activism of the 1960s and why, for her, the personal really is political
A new library at Magdalene College and a dining hall at Homerton make the most of modern craftsmanship
On the 300th anniversary of his death, the architect’s fame remains unassailable – but the character of the man is more contested than ever, writes Matthew Walker
David Young Kim’s ingenious study of grounds and figures takes the reader on an unfamiliar journey through familiar territory
Robert Mintz of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco explains how tensions between tigers and magpies in Korean folk tales made their way on to a porcelain vase
The painter’s close friendship with the Wertheimers is quite evident in the many portraits he made of them all