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Has the Humboldt Forum got it horribly wrong?
The rebuilt Prussian palace is finally open, but the debate about how – and whether – it should house collections from Asia and Africa rumbles on
From the Thames Tideway Tunnel to Taipei – the year ahead in architecture
In London, the River Thames is the centre of attention, while starchitects have big plans in Sydney and Taipei
The Art of Life: Adam Foulds
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’
How Fabergé cornered the market in gifts for the Edwardian elite
The firm of Fabergé is synonymous with the Russian Imperial family, but its fabulous baubles soon became a must-have for elites across Europe
Are Scotland’s baronial castles worth saving?
The best Scotch baronial buildings epitomise the sophisticated planning required by a mid Victorian household. But have they had their day?
Art attack – when vandals strike
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
The week in art news – Ricardo Bofill (1939–2022)
Plus: Man attacks BBC‘S Eric Gill statue with a hammer and Victoria Siddall steps down as global director of Frieze Fairs
The peculiar perfectionism of Domenico Gnoli
In the six years before his tragically early death, the Italian artist zoomed in on the details of the everyday – to supremely unsettling effect
Mission impossible – the museum for artworks that don’t exist
A modern-day Salon des Refusés saves and celebrates unrealised and unwanted artworks in digital form
Hollywood’s Waterloo – the art of playing Napoleon
Ridley Scott is pressing ahead with his biopic about Bonaparte – but Rakewell has a modest proposal regarding the leading man
Do minimalist architects make the best murderers? – ‘The Girl Before’, reviewed
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
Arty books and films to look out for in 2022
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 Art of Life: Maaza Mengiste
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
The week in art news – Colston Four cleared of criminal damage
Plus: Iwona Blazwick to step down as director of Whitechapel Gallery, and more of the week’s top stories
Are New Towns a thing of the past?
The ambitious post-war planning programme was an extraordinary achievement – and one that is ripe for reassessment
Showing their metal – the glorious gold of the ancient Saka people
Burials uncovered in East Kazakhstan have revealed the nomadic Saka to be as skilled in gold-working as they were in horsemanship and war
Geniuses of the place – the award-winning artists standing their ground in Chicago
Rachel Cohen spends some quality time with a series of installations and exhibitions by MacArthur Award-winners set throughout the city
What artists need to know about art law
The final episode of Apollo and Charles Russell Speechlys’ art law series explores how artists might best navigate the legal obligations that are placed on them
The museum openings not to miss in 2022
The new-look Musée de Cluny and the Burrell Collection reopen, while there are also treats in store for fans of Bob Dylan and Serge Gainsbourg
Majestic heights – the art of kingship at the National Palace Museum of Korea
The museum in Seoul is dedicated to the Joseon dynasty who ruled for more than 500 years, but also contains reminders of Korea’s turbulent 20th-century history
The major art anniversaries to look out for in 2022
The year ahead brings significant anniversaries and, consequently, blockbuster exhibitions for Lucian Freud, Piet Mondrian and Rosa Bonheur
The fantastic beast that took Alice to meet the Mock Turtle
When John Tenniel drew the grumpy Gryphon in ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, he may have had a real heraldic monster in mind
When it came to art, the religions of medieval Spain had a lot in common
Christianity, Judaism and Islam shared a visual language on the Iberian peninsula – but it was a fragile balance at the best of times
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The Colston Four should never have been charged with criminal damage
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