By Alexander Stone Britain never set out to become a home for the Russian avant-garde. It has no equivalent of the Stedelijk Museum’s Malevich holdings…
By Lana Sterling William Morris, a central figure in the Arts and Crafts movement, sought to revive traditional craftsmanship and bring beauty into everyday life,…
In the first days of 1603 the Roman nobleman Ciriaco Mattei paid Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio 125 scudi for a painting of the arrest of…
The artist and designer Asif Shaikh on TRAsh, his series of photographs and collages made from wrappers, bottle caps and vape packaging, and on what…
Pirosmani's record price dates from 2018, not this month. The real story is the painting's chain of owners, starting with Stefan Zweig in Moscow in…
The Bayeux Tapestry is at the British Museum until July 2027. How it crossed the Channel, why tickets vanished, and where to see the Reading…
Maurizio Cattelan’s NIGHT turns Mies van der Rohe’s glass hall into a contemporary church: a shrunken Brandenburg Gate, a kneeling Hitler, a crucified figure in…
On 26 September the Turner Prize 2026 exhibition opens at MIMA, the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. The shortlisted work will be on show there…
Walk into the medieval and early Renaissance rooms of the National Gallery in London and you pass, within a few paces, a lamb tucked under…
By Alexander Stone A gallery exhibition in London is not reviewed because someone asked nicely. It is reviewed because a hang was ready, a press…