On the eve of this year’s Academy Awards, disappointed nominees in the best director category should take comfort from an unusual set of candles
Designed in the 18th century by Luigi Vanvitelli for Charles VII of Naples, Italy’s answer to Versailles is as dizzying today as it was 250 years ago
The novelist was a wandering soul, so what can his house in London – now celebrating its centenary as a museum – tell us about the man?
On the 125th anniversary of the birth of the Jamaican artist Edna Manley, we examine four sculptures carved from wood
The sinister corporation in the dystopian office drama really cares about art, but the paintings on the walls only highlight the workers’ sense of alienation rather than relieving it
Technology and ornament went hand in hand at the court of Louis XIV, and his successors expected the same from the scientific advances of their day
The artist painted the Wertheimers 12 times, in portraits that shed light on the changing fortunes of an extraordinary family
As the Hungarian-American artist celebrates his 80th birthday, is his brand of conceptual art still as radical as it once was?
Shattered by high energy prices and shifting consumer habits, the historic Potteries in Stoke-on-Trent are more vulnerable than ever
A meditative painting by Qi Baishi demonstrates his modern approach to an ancient art form, explains Jeremy Zhang of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco
The Flemish castle bought by Rubens in 1635 was intended as a country retreat, and it inspired the artist’s greatest landscapes
The artist’s monochrome sculptures made of everyday objects are full of menace and all the more exhilarating for it
Impressionists and post-Impressionists rule among the paintings in Disney+ series ‘Paradise’, but it’s a Sargent that becomes a talking point
Nothing gets a certain type of viewer more hot under the cravat than anachronisms in period drama – but the best inaccuracies are artistically liberating
These artistic experiments by early embracers of new technologies already look charmingly retro
Earthenware from the Central Asian empire is much sought-after, though quality pieces can be found at relatively low prices too
To mark 45 years since the death of Oskar Kokoschka, we select four dramatic landscapes painted in the Expressionist style
Only a few of his buildings survive, but George Dance the Younger’s visionary designs for London should be better known
Picasso was the possessor of a hearty appetite and depictions of alcohol and excess are also central to his work
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The New York Historical’s display about Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who escaped from Central Park Zoo, is a reminder of what freedom looks like and how easily it can be taken away
Recent rehangs at the Met and the Brooklyn Museum suggest that part of the answer lies in respecting the viewer’s own capacity for interpretation
The winner of the competition to redesign the most popular galleries will be announced next month, but are the finalists thinking hard enough what the museum should really be?
Whether Orphism can be called a coherent movement is one thing, but its practitioners produced some excellent art
