Tim Smith-Laing holds a DPhil on early modern mythography from Merton College, Oxford
The artist’s compilation of entrances and exits in the movies takes viewers deep into a labyrinth – and leaves us to find our own way out
A display of counterfeit works offers an object lesson in what a masterpiece really is – but it could have had more fun with the subject
The much-debated new displays suffer from weak artworks, tokenism and terrible lighting
At the age of 91, the artist has produced a series of remarkable self-portraits, now on show at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
The artist who effortlessly crossed genres, but stayed close to south London, was best known for ‘A Humument’, a masterpiece 50 years in the making
An ambitious show at the Ashmolean Museum looks past the familiar clichés to the real city and its artists
The Clash bassist’s pulverised instrument can now be worshipped at the Museum of London
2 Tone began as a ska-inspired record label, but swiftly became a look and a political stance – and a defining moment in British cultural history
On the bicentenary of the poet’s birth, his art criticism still hums with outrage
Federico Zuccari’s illustrations of the Divine Comedy have seldom been shown. But the Uffizi has put them online – and Dante’s poem has never looked better
