• T.S. Eliot’s attitude to visual art • An interview with Giorgio Griffa • The Penn Museum gets a makeover • Syrian artists in a time of war
PLUS: Modigliani, Japanese bamboo art, how to settle art disputes, and much more
Liliane Lijn | Picasso | Mughal painting | Impressionism
Jan Švankmajer | Pompeii | Cat ladies
Museum of West African Art | Jeremy Frey | Ed Ruscha
Napoleon Bonaparte | Caspar David Friedrich | the Impressionists
The museum is set to close in 2025, leaving a hole in the city’s arts scene and adding to growing disquiet about its general direction
An exhibition at the Soane Museum shows that technical drawings of buildings are often more complex than they may seem
The museum’s head of framing, Peter Schade, is quietly changing how we see some of the world’s most famous pictures
Berthe Weill was as devoted to young artists as she was to the cause of modern art – and her efforts are now receiving belated recognition