Salomé Jashi’s film ‘Taming the Garden’ documents how a tree-hogging former prime minister is pillaging the landscape to create a private paradise
The painter of urban desolation explains why boredom is essential for painting and how motorbikes relieve the monotony
‘The Blue Boy’ is heavily influenced by Van Dyck’s grand manner. But what did the artist mean by dressing up his young subject in this way?
Rakewell pays tribute to the late, great Marvin Lee Aday, who combined art forms with an originality matched only by Richard Wagner
Plus: The Courtauld Institute and Kings College London have announced a 10-year ‘strategic partnership’
The familiarity of the designer’s most famous products has long obscured his more utopian side
The rebuilt Prussian palace is finally open, but the debate about how – and whether – it should house collections from Asia and Africa rumbles on
In London, the River Thames is the centre of attention, while starchitects have big plans in Sydney and Taipei
The novelist Adam Foulds talks about three of his favourite works of art, and how incorporating the National Gallery into his most recent novel was 'an act of homage'
The firm of Fabergé is synonymous with the Russian Imperial family, but its fabulous baubles soon became a must-have for elites across Europe
The best Scotch baronial buildings epitomise the sophisticated planning required by a mid Victorian household. But have they had their day?
After the hammer attack on Eric Gill’s statue of ‘Prospero and Ariel’, Rakewell reflects upon other artworks that have seized the imagination of vandals
Plus: Man attacks BBC‘S Eric Gill statue with a hammer and Victoria Siddall steps down as global director of Frieze Fairs
Although the four defendants admitted to toppling the slave trader’s statue, the specifics of the case meant that the law was on their side
In the six years before his tragically early death, the Italian artist zoomed in on the details of the everyday – to supremely unsettling effect
A modern-day Salon des Refusés saves and celebrates unrealised and unwanted artworks in digital form
Ridley Scott is pressing ahead with his biopic about Bonaparte – but Rakewell has a modest proposal regarding the leading man
A dislike of frills can signal much more sinister tendencies – or that’s what a BBC adaptation of J.P. Delaney’s thriller ‘The Girl Before’ would have us believe
From a caper about the pensioner who swiped a Goya to the memoir of a curator who came in from the cold – the must-see movies and a first reading list for art lovers
The novelist Maaza Mengiste talks to Sophie Barling about the three works of art that mean the most to her – and how she sees every image as a self-portrait
Plus: Iwona Blazwick to step down as director of Whitechapel Gallery, and more of the week’s top stories
The ambitious post-war planning programme was an extraordinary achievement – and one that is ripe for reassessment
Burials uncovered in East Kazakhstan have revealed the nomadic Saka to be as skilled in gold-working as they were in horsemanship and war
Rachel Cohen spends some quality time with a series of installations and exhibitions by MacArthur Award-winners set throughout the city
