Florence Hallett
15 January 2025
The Nazis’ London HQ
How prewar Germany turned an embassy close to Buckingham Palace into a temple to Hitler’s ideology
Read the full article29 December 2024
‘Poor art’ in rich places
A defunct commodities exchange in Paris, owned by a billionaire, is the setting for an exhibition of a radical art movement that used lowly materials to react against consumerism
Read the full article07 November 2024
Florence’s angels of mud
First came a devastating flood.. then a city’s battle to save its cultural heritage
Read the full article23 October 2024
An exhibition at a moment of vital importance
In a tense year, a new Athens exhibition celebrates our precious freedom to vote
Read the full article25 September 2024
Following Luigi Ghirri out of the ordinary
The Italian photographer who captured the magic in the everyday
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The art of survival
Bombed, suppressed, destroyed… but the work of Ukrainian artists goes on
Read the full article31 July 2024
Peggy Guggenheim: the calm and the collector
How the British countryside saved modern art’s greatest champion
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The last testament of Jacqueline de Jong
A fiery final interview with the provocative Dutch artist
Read the full article12 June 2024
Scheidegger, artist of the portraits
How tragedy turned photojournalist Ernst Scheidegger into a recorder of Dalí, Giacometti and more
Read the full article22 May 2024
Moving right.. away from art
Amsterdam prepares for Art Week against a backdrop of a new government keen to end culture funding
Read the full article18 May 2024
The white world of Brâncuși
On the eve of its five-year closure, the Centre Pompidou is hosting an exhibition of Constantin Brâncuși’s work that is only the second of its kind in France
Read the full article17 April 2024
Vive le Centre Pompidou: Monster magnifique
Amid all the glories of Paris, the Pompidou Centre stands as a monument to modernism and to the man whose name it bears
Read the full article20 March 2024
Fear comes to Istanbul’s cultural scene
The Istanbul Modern has been forced to cooperate with the government and compromise on its politics
Read the full article06 March 2024
Against the herd: the kaleidoscopic visions of Outi Pieski
The artist championing the Arctic’s mistreated, reindeer-raising Sámi people
Read the full article07 February 2024
Pasquarosa, the muse that roared
How an illiterate model reinvented herself as one of Italy’s greatest modern painters
Read the full article28 January 2024
The art of Brexit
Satire, sadness and the home truths about a divided nation
Read the full article03 January 2024
It’s going to be a very strong year in art
A number of anniversaries means it's going to be a year to savour for the visual arts
Read the full article20 December 2023
Female artists take centre stage in 2023
Several standout exhibitions this year moved beyond simply flagging the work of “forgotten” artist women
Read the full article15 November 2023
Harriet Backer’s music of light
Celebrating a rediscovery of the Norwegian realist who used colour combinations ‘like chords sounding in perfect harmony’
Read the full article08 November 2023
Radical acts of resistance: women in the Paris Avantgarde
A new exhibition in Basel aims to put women at the centre of the previously male-dominated Fauvism movement
Read the full article11 October 2023
Stop these boats: Norway’s cruise ship crisis
The green party has ambitions to make Bergen ‘cruise-free’ by 2027 but this will be no mean feat
Read the full article04 October 2023
Nomad world: the esoteric aura of Not Vital
How the Switzerland-born contemporary artist has left his mark across the globe
Read the full article27 September 2023
Venice’s visitor charge will not avert disaster
This tourist charge will not address the city's declining population, rising prices and lack of housing
Read the full article20 September 2023
It’s time to flatten Rubens’ curves
Despite his legacy, "Rubenesque" women were only a small part of the artist's work
Read the full article02 August 2023
The artwashing in Istanbul
The museum that masks Erdoğan’s contempt for Turkey’s artists
Read the full article21 June 2023
Divine madness: The whirlwind life of Sarah Bernhardt
Europe’s first celebrity is celebrated in a treasure trove of objects at Paris’ Petit Palais
Read the full article14 June 2023
Disasterpiece: how Brexit relegated Britain from the art market’s premier league
The UK used to be the obvious point of entry for art and antiquities coming into Europe. But then we ostracised ourselves
Read the full article24 May 2023
Modernism’s frenemies
The rivalry and respect between Manet and Degas
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Bridget Riley’s ‘hymn to the power of sight’
Her piece is a nod to the cultural and intellectual links between Britain and Italy
Read the full article30 March 2023
We need to talk about Picasso
Fifty years after his death, the artist’s misogyny is the most pressing aspect of his legacy
Read the full article23 March 2023
Lucie Rie: A refugee’s great pottery showdown
We labelled her an ‘enemy alien’ but the Austrian-born studio potter’s work helped reinvent a drab postwar Britain
Read the full article02 February 2023
The art of the Spanish Empire’s bloody conquests
A new exhibition shows how cross-cultural fertilisation was a characteristic of the Iberian peninsula from its early history
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