Is the Stirling Prize suffering from a case of tunnel vision?
The Elizabeth Line is a worthy winner, but the award’s annual attempt to shame policymakers into requiring more from the UK construction industry is doomed to fail
The slippery Surrealism of Pierre Roy
The French artist was largely ignored by his peers, but his uncanny painting of a snake is a masterpiece
Art Basel Paris gets a second chance to make a first impression
The much-anticipated fair returns to Paris for ‘a second inaugural edition’ with a whole new section and a greater emphasis on public programming
Paula Modersohn-Becker’s quest to become her own person
The German painter died tragically young, but in the course of her short life she became the artist she always wanted to be
How will Paris cope without the Pompidou Centre for five years?
The museum is set to close for five years, leaving a hole in the city’s arts scene and adding to growing disquiet about its general direction
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Emmanuel Macron pleads for Emily to stay in Paris
The French president’s wife tests her dramatic chops in the latest season of Emily in Paris, even though the show is now flirting with Rome – and her husband couldn’t be happier
The warped aesthetics of Lynn Chadwick
The sculptor’s witty animal-like sculptures are dotted around the grounds of his house in the Cotswolds – and they feel right at home there
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In the studio with… Pauline Curnier Jardin
When working in her suntrap of a studio in Rome, the artist enjoys people-watching, listening to jazz and admiring an antique manhole cover made of travertine
In the studio with… Eduardo Terrazas
The Mexican artist, known for his woven works that borrow from folk-art traditions, listens to Bach and Rosalía while working in his studio in Colonia Roma, Mexico City
October 2024
An interview with Liliane Lijn
The dealer who launched Picasso
The marvels of Mughal painting
Impressionism and its discontents
Plus:
The many faces of Mary Magdalene, memory and modernity at the new-look Warburg Institute, how Paris will cope without the Pompidou, the richness of Arte Povera, the joy of arty plates, and what a dearth of young collectors might mean for the market; plus reviews of Mark Bradford in Berlin, what Scotland thought of the Cold War, and how printmaking made an impression
Four things to see: Imagination
These four artworks show how the imagination – the incubator of all human creativity – can be drawn on to conjure entirely new worlds
What real American women have worn at home, at work and in wartime
The New-York Historical Society weaves together personal and social histories by assembling all manner of garments, from workwear to rebelwear
How printmaking made a lasting impression
Printing is found throughout art history – and often in the places you least expect it, as Jennifer L. Roberts demonstrates in her highly original new book
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The tangled history of the London Tube map
A play about Harry Beck, creator of London Underground map we still use today, shows just how tricky it was to land on the perfect design
Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Arte Povera masterpiece is a case of rags and endless riches
Curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev explains how the artist’s Venus of the Rags embodies the innovative spirit of the Italian movement
An eye-opening look at Girl with a Pearl Earring
A new study breaks down viewers’ reactions to Vermeer’s most famous work – a welcome reminder that artists have long had stratagems for seducing the eye
Plans revived for Centre Pompidou satellite in New Jersey
Plus: climate activists acquitted in Manchester, Hammer Museum appoints Zoë Ryan as its new director, and researchers find 7th-century throne room in Peru
The cult buildings of Carlo Scarpa
The Italian modernist who was at his most creative working in historic settings left behind an intensely individual legacy
The unconventional wisdom of Eileen Agar
The British Surrealist’s colourful account of a long and eventful career is back in print, and her deep commitment to her work couldn’t be clearer
Bringing Pompeii back to life
Recent conservation efforts have led to new discoveries of stunning interiors and wall paintings that also tell us more about everyday life in the city
The surreal films of Jan Švankmajer
When it comes to conjuring the uncanny atmosphere and impossible logic of dreams, the Czech film-maker has few equals
Tamara de Lempicka
The artist’s portraits of socialites in Paris in the 1920s and ’30s are the main draw at the de Young Museum – but she took on other subjects, too
Rubens’s Workshop
Rubens was the most successful artist of his day, but he wasn’t doing it all on his own, as this exhibition at the Prado makes abundantly clear
Hew Locke: what have we here?
The artist turns curator in an exhibition that makes connections between Britain’s imperial past and the contents of the British Museum
Discover Constable & the Hay Wain
The most famous landscape in British art is the centre of attention in a display to mark the National Gallery’s bicentenary