Irina Dumitrescu is an essayist and professor of medieval English literature at the University of Bonn.

Gold Icon Sheila Hicks and the art of infinite possibility

A retrospective by the textile artist is wonderfully open to interpretation, with works so inviting you might want to throw yourself at them

2 Jan 2025

The optical allusions of Constantin Brancusi

Identifying the inspirations for the Romanian sculptor’s enigmatic works remains quite the puzzle

12 Jun 2024

The Norman conquest of the European imagination

It’s hard to say who, exactly, the Normans were – but even harder to make them out as a model migrants and proto-Europeans as a string of recent exhibitions has tried to do

29 Aug 2023