Christina Makris goes in search of the work of the architect renowned for marrying traditional craftsmanship to modernist details
Sotheby’s and Christie’s are both hoping to capitalise on the artist’s luxury status next week
Plus: the Centre Pompidou in Paris will close for five years, from 2025–2030, and Samuel Fosso wins the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
For too long, Britain’s lack of regard for the song contest has been rewarded by poor results. It’s time to make more of an effort.
These photographs of domestic scenes and everyday encounters are very familiar and very unsettling
Amid all the pomp and the circumstance, the crowning of Charles III has much to tell us about the state of the nation
Guests at the opening of ‘Saint Francis of Assisi’ included two very fetching wolf-dogs. Rakewell regrets not making their acquaintance.
The current edition of Asia’s oldest biennial is far from perfect, though there’s a lot of very good art here
With all eyes on the coronation, it’s worth remembering that the scene of the ceremony remains a work in progress
A trip through the Condé Nast archives now owned by François Pinault suggests that wit is no longer in vogue
From a special ointment to an Aztec stone, we have gathered together a set of essentials to get the new King through his big day
The joint acquisition of Joshua Reynolds’s ‘Portrait of Mai (Omai)’ by the National Portrait Gallery and the J. Paul Getty Museum has been confirmed
Sotheby’s claims the rockstar was also a fervent art collector but Rakewell can’t help wonder if this is just fantasy?
At the age of 91, the artist has produced a series of remarkable self-portraits, now on show at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
There’s strong competition in the Big Apple this month, with a martial portrait by Rubens and a late landscape by Henri Rousseau among the contenders
Art and dance have been engaged in a pas de deux for centuries
The artist starts the day by watering the plants on his balcony from where he can watch people eating at a neighbouring restaurant
Pedestrianisation means that one of London's finest churches is now the centre of attention again
The Musée Jacquemart-André shows that the painter was always open to new influences
The genre has often been dismissed as a kind of copying – but at their best, these paintings make us look again at the act of looking
Painstaking sleuthing has tracked down the artist’s colourful commercial designs for garment manufacturers
Enrolment in the humanities is tumbling across the United States, but the numbers for fine art are still holding up
The hunt is on for an epic mural depicting ‘Country Life in Britain’ – but chances are it’s a wild goose chase
How artists have used their practice to document climate change and reflect on our relationship to our planet
