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How cuteness conquered the world
An aww-inspiring exhibition explores adorability through the ages, and suggests it can be subversive as well as sweet
The Impressionists who put pastel to paper
As an exhibition at the Royal Academy shows, the Impressionists were never more immediate or intimate than in their drawings
Building back better in Britain and Ireland
The Reformation was a disaster for British architecture, argues an impressive new book – and the country’s approach to building design has never been the same
Amazon gets the art world wrong again
The streamer’s latest romcom, ‘Upgraded’, stretches artistic licence to its limits
Acquisitions of the Month: January 2024
A recently identified painting by Guercino and a series of Joseph Cornell boxes are among the most significant works to have entered public collections last month
Four things to see: The Year of the Dragon
Chinese New Year is nigh – but the zodiac’s most auspicious creature has a storied history of baring its fangs in many other cultures, too
Josephine Baker, agent provocateur
The American star and sometime spy was more than capable of defining her own image, as an exhibition in Berlin makes clear
All hail Flaco, the owl who rules Manhattan
The Central Park Zoo escapee was born in chains, but everywhere from the Upper West Side to the East Village he is now free
Holidaying with the Habsburgs
Every summer, the emperor Franz Josef celebrated his birthday in the ‘earthly paradise’ of Bad Ischl, now a European Capital of Culture
Pleasure-seeking in Edo-period Japan
The details of this fine woodblock show there’s even more to a majestic print of a 19th-century courtesan than meets the eye – if you know how to look
States of awareness – experimental art from the Eastern bloc
Artists in the Soviet satellite states often adopted the forms and techniques of mass surveillance to mordant effect
From Africa to Byzantium, and back again
Trade and cultural exchange meant that the iconographical traditions of East Africa and Byzantium had much in common
The HR crisis hobbling Italian museums
While the appointment or dismissal of directors makes headlines, chronic understaffing is a much more fundamental problem
The artists who made it in London against the odds
Making a living in the capital has always been a challenge for creative types, but British television was once very interested in how they managed
Blue sky thinking with Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
The artist is better known for painting Ancien Régime aristocrats than for verdant hills and melancholy skies. That may change after an auction at Sotheby’s
The weird sisters immortalised in an even weirder novel
Herve Guibert’s ‘photographic novel’ of 1980 about his great aunts, Suzanne and Louise, is a masterpiece of love and obsession
Cindy Sherman gets a makeover for Marc Jacobs
Cindy Sherman stars in the fashion designer’s latest ad campaign – and she’s not the first artist who has modelled in this way
The painter who took a quixotic view of Spain
Ignacio Zuloaga was once as celebrated as Sorolla, but the artist’s searching paintings soon fell out of favour after his death
At the Fondazione Prada, folding screens divide and totally rule
From pieces of furniture to works of conceptual art, an exhibition in Milan reveals that folding screens are functional, adaptable and always divisive
The untamed art of Théodore Géricault
Two hundred years after the painter’s death, his work still has the power to shock and his life remains shrouded in mystery
Forces of Will: Building Chicago – a comic by Claire Barliant
After the demolition of some of Chicago’s best architecture, what lies in store for postmodernist landmark the James R. Thompson Center now that Google owns it?
Shore thing – the artists who flourished on the New York waterfront
What did Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly and Lenore Tawney have in common? They all lived cheek by jowl in a wharfside district of Manhattan
Acquisitions of the Month: December 2023
A miniature copy of the Apollo Belvedere and a Mesoamerican jade statuette are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
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Chaos into calm – the art of Taloi Havini
The Papua New Guinean won the 10th Artes Mundi prize last month, with video works and installations that eloquently embody the history and heritage of her homeland