Tutankhamun Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh
Some 150 items from the tomb of Tutankhamen are making a second stop on a world tour designed in part to help […]
Art: Sculpture in Venice
Visiting Venice at any time of the year poses problems and the biannual Biennales make matters worse.
Art: A Bigger Splash in Scotland
A swimming pool as art? Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos has gravitated toward ‘fairground art’ in her rise to fame since the 2005 […]
Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life
Those lucky enough to have seen the Tate’s Turbine Hall installation The Weather Project in 2003 have a second chance to experience […]
Last Supper in Pompeii
When Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, the people of Pompeii were doing what Romans loved best – eating, drinking and producing food […]
Art: The Early Years of Old Masters
The figurative paintings of Baselitz, Richter, Polke and Kiefer challenged the primacy of abstraction in the 1960s
Art: Private Garden, Dreamed Garden
A group of young American artists descended on Giverny, the home of the great impressionist Claude Monet, at the turn of the […]
Art: Gerhard Richter Seascapes
Basically, painting is idiocy,” the German artist Gerhard Richter once said. In a poll by Vanity Fair to find the greatest living […]
