How to cut a statue down to size
Robert Bevan’s call to require a lot less from our public monuments has much to recommend it
Robert Bevan’s call to require a lot less from our public monuments has much to recommend it
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The boom in international demand for contemporary art has seen more and more living artists begin to sell at auction. But who stands to gain?
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Marianne Werefkin has long been overshadowed by her male peers, but the Royal Academy’s show devoted to modernist women may restore her to her rightful place
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Critics of the National Trust’s plan to keep the fire-gutted house as a ruin are ignoring the organisation’s history and that of the building itself
The Japanese fashion designer revolutionised womenswear by creating comfortable clothes appreciated for their androgynous elegance and ease
The dealers of Mayfair and St James’s have banded together with the Philharmonia Orchestra for a special series of concerts this year
Jakarta-based artists’ collective ruangrupa's curatorial vision for the 15th edition of the fair puts a spotlight on artists from the global South
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The largest mosaic found in London in half a century offers a welcome glimpse into the home-decorating choices of aspirational Britons
The rebuilt Prussian palace is finally open, but the debate about how – and whether – it should house collections from Asia and Africa rumbles on
Art historians may be sceptical about artificial intelligence, but machine learning might enlarge our capacity for observation – and even revive connoisseurship
Casa Balla, Rome Opened June 2021 For nearly 30 years, from 1929 until his death in 1958, Giacomo Balla lived in this apartment on Via Oslavia in Rome. Having been left to his daughters, who lived here until their deaths in the 1990s, the flat – a living laboratory for the Futurist’s work, its walls, […]
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Bernadine Bröcker Wieder and Douglas McCarthy consider what museums are really selling when they mint NFTs – and what serious collectors want
Somerset House hosts the London edition of 1-54 and galleries across the capital make the most of the limelight
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