Deborah Nash
23 April 2025
Mutilated angels: the barbaric and beautiful world of the castrati
A new exhibition tells the disturbing story of the brutalised boys who became 18th-century London’s biggest musical celebrities
Read the full article09 April 2025
Bloom and bust: the decadent life of Charles Baudelaire
An enigmatic Berlin exhibition inspired by Les Fleurs du mal misses the heavy velvet curtains and perfume and the sense of intoxication
Read the full article15 January 2025
Science and the Sun King
Louis XIV built a Xanadu at Versailles – and sealed his family’s fate. But amid the extravagant luxury was thrilling innovation
Read the full article20 November 2024
Frank Auerbach, the German who painted London
Sent from Berlin to London to escape the Nazis, artist Frank Auerbach – who died earlier this month – painted his new surroundings over and over again
Read the full article07 November 2024
Through glass, darkly
As arguments about Notre-Dame’s restoration rage on, a new exhibition gathers together stained-glass windows that caused their own controversy in the 1930s
Read the full article03 November 2024
What two suits and a parrot say about modern art
A London exhibition featuring Joseph Beuys and two more key conceptual artists feels dated if occasionally thrilling
Read the full article17 July 2024
Pieces of Brecht
The playwright’s archives reveal him as a compulsive newspaper clipper and a master of montage
Read the full article26 June 2024
Rebecca Horn, angel of alchemy
A retrospective opens in Munich of the drawings, films and kinetic sculptures of German artist Rebecca Horn
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24 April 2024
Treasures of the Seine
An exhibition of 150 objects found in the river opens at the Archaeological Crypt on Île de la Cité, Paris
Read the full article09 April 2024
Surfing with the no-beach boys of Munich
The Eisbach river offers the city’s residents an eccentric gift: a surfing wave in landlocked Bavaria
Read the full article27 September 2023
Coco Chanel, the revolutionary of women’s fashion
“My life didn’t please me, so, I created my life,” she once said, and it was with scissors that she did so
Read the full article30 August 2023
Up all night at the Avignon theatre festival
This year’s Festival d’Avignon – a celebration of song, music and dance – kicked off with a rebellion against Brexit
Read the full article06 August 2023
Pearls and wisdom: a record of a trade long forgotten
In small town in northern France, the art of producing beautiful objects from shells is being kept alive
Read the full article02 February 2023
A bigger bang: harnessing the transformative power of theatre
For over half a century, a Parisian company based in an old munitions factory has been delivering explosive theatre
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