The home the writer designed for herself in the hills of Massachusetts is a window on to the shifting tastes of Gilded Age America
The art world tends to favour self-promoting extroverts, but it is often the eccentrics and wallflowers who make the most interesting work
The British Library’s exhibition of women in the Middle Ages who were creative and intellectual pioneers is a red-carpet affair
In his final works, some of which have never been shown before, the endlessly restless artist adopted an abstract style that challenges us to look for hidden meanings
Highlights include a trove of photographs by Robert Frank and the first Bernini statue in a Dutch public collection
The Aga Khan IV, who has died at the age of 88, formed an important collection of Islamic art and dedicated some of his fabulous wealth to cultural heritage projects around the world
To mark 85 years since the premiere of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio, here are four artworks that speak to our enduring fascination with puppetry
Brady Corbet’s epically long film starring Adrien Brody as a Bauhaus-trained architect in America conveniently pretends that all the real Bauhaus-trained architects who made it to America never existed
The Disney star was a marvel of 20th-century industrial production and the Second World War was his finest hour, writes Todd McEwen
Helen Gordon charts the fall and cultural rise of the Ensisheim meteorite of 1492
A textural triumph and a sensual delight, this distinctly '80s ice cream is as pleasing to look at as it is to consume
Two restored masterpieces – one vast in scale, the other intimate – are being shown together for the first time to give us fresh insights into ‘the first light of Renaissance painting’
As Trump 2.0 makes its presence felt, the art market is feeling nervous about new trade barriers – and reluctant to talk about the subject in public
The late, great singer had noble origins – and the way she negotiated the machinations of Warhol’s Factory would put most courtiers to shame
The Great Pompeii project has more than lived up to the name, but it’s now time for a period of conservation and consolidation
Though clearly influenced by Caravaggio, the Spanish painter rendered saints and sinners in a ferocious style all of his own
Rachel Cohen talks to Apollo about the reissue of ‘A Chance Meeting’, her inventive account of more than a century of artistic endeavour in the United States
The designer’s wallpaper patterns are so familiar that they’re in danger of being taken for granted – but there’s still plenty to discover if we look more closely
Tim Blanning’s masterful biography demonstrates that the despotic ruler of Saxony and Poland was rubbish at war, but had absolutely fabulous taste in art
Figurative art is on the up and up but that doesn’t mean that every painting of a person is a literal depiction
After a period of pandalessness and at the end of a momentous week in the nation’s capital, the Smithsonian National Zoo presented two new visitors from China to the public
A retrospective by the textile artist is wonderfully open to interpretation, with works so inviting you might want to throw yourself at them
Artefacts looted by British soldiers from the Asante kingdom in the 19th century can now be seen in Ghana, but are loans from UK museums nearly enough?
The identity of two terracotta busts attributed to Guido Mazzoni may be up for debate, but there’s no denying the emotional possibilities of the material in which they’re made
