How X. Marcel Boulestin catered to the masses
The restaurateur and writer won over both the smart set and the middle classes – and was a hero to Elizabeth David
The restaurateur and writer won over both the smart set and the middle classes – and was a hero to Elizabeth David
The sculptor's chandelier, now export-stopped by the UK government, once hung in the offices of Cyril Connolly’s <i>Horizon</i> magazine
The frock you can wear to everything has never gone out of style – but that hasn’t stopped designers trying to pull it off its pedestal
Spot Judith, Delilah, the Virgin Mary – and museum staff – in a monumental mural inspired by a 15th-century altarpiece
The Argentinian artist sculpts anthropomorphic adobe ovens, which he uses to cook for local communities
The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh stages the largest solo exhibition of the artist’s work to date
The mythology-mad artist magics up textiles, paintings and sculptures while surrounded by Korean masks and other miscellany – including the ashes of her late dog, Chicho
Whether transforming existing images or taking photographs of her own, the socially engaged artist has never stopped experimenting
A few excellent results can't paper over the deeper cracks that have appeared at Christie's and Sotheby's this summer
The painter enjoys a bird’s-eye view from her high-rise studio, where she works among paint-encrusted books and a surprisingly large stack of bridal magazines
From Käthe Kollwitz to Edvard Munch and beyond, this week take a look at some of the key figures of this important movement
The city’s newest and largest arts space provides ample room for the artist’s large-scale inflatables, but it’s not all about size
The Rijksmuseum’s blockbuster has been recorded for posterity, but can a film really do the paintings justice?
The saint may have lived a life of poverty, but this richly varied exhibition is anything but impoverished
At RIBA a film by Jim Stephenson shows that architecture can have a long and unpredictable afterlife
Real archaeologists are probably right to regard their famous fictional colleague as a renegade, but he’s a useful reminder of what not to do on a dig
A rare 17th-century portrait of a Black woman and a white woman and an illustrated Armenian manuscript are among this month’s highlights
How artists have depicted homosexuality at various points in history
The performance artist uses paint, props and a nude cast of actors to make her point
Research proves that viewers linger longest over the torments in Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. What that says about humanity, God only knows.