These comforting songs are freighted with cultural and personal memories – and artists are working to preserve them
John Crome was among the greatest English landscape painters of his day – but you’ve probably never heard of him
Nicola Suthor’s study of the self-confident style known as ‘bravura’ is something of a virtuoso affair
Many art businesses still have work to do in complying with new anti-money laundering regulations – and in properly understanding the risks
They may look like tranquil scenes, but stick with Andersson’s paintings and their sense of encroaching menace is bound to creep up on you
It may be an unassuming little shelter, but the beach hut tells of a British infatuation with property and propriety
Like the rarest works of art, white truffles from Alba are commodities in a mysterious, monied world
The fate of the Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi remains uncertain, with curators ordered to evacuate its vast collection within six months
Where Winckelmann and Walter Pater have trod, the tech entrepreneur follows
The UK-based painter opens the door on his studio in Bath – where he sometimes dons a suit to work, he says, if not a tie
The state has just shelled out €4million for the libertine’s most notorious work – how times have changed
Raymond Erith adapted classical architecture for a modern age
Native American belts made of wampum shells have long fulfilled a diplomatic purpose – and as such are very much a living art
Filming for Batman and Indiana Jones has transformed the city in recent weeks – to the delight of Glaswegians
Plus: More than 17,000 looted artefacts returned to Iraq
The British artist was a titan of modern sculpture – and following his example, it would never be the same again
The sound artist carries his studio with him wherever he goes – on a 13-inch MacBook Pro
The novelist may be little read today, but his fiction inspired an enduring, Romantic vision of the past
The British artist rejected modernism, but in life as in art she was hardly conservative
The Clash bassist’s pulverised instrument can now be worshipped at the Museum of London
An Enlightenment project to classify all the colours in the natural world is an extraordinary feat of ingenuity
The giant ferris wheel may now be part of the furniture – but the view from on high is still revolutionary
Plus: Phillip King (1934–2021) and Xavier Rey appointed director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris
The dairy at Rambouillet was a masterpiece of neoclassical design
