Personality of the Year
Cecilia Alemani
Cecilia Alemani
‘The Standard Bearer’ by Rembrandt
‘Donatello: the Renaissance’ at Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
‘English Garden Eccentrics’ by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Art UK Sculpture
Faith Ringgold
The fin-de-siècle movement fired up the imaginations of avant-garde ceramicists across Europe
Northern Renaissance paintings and art nouveau designs are among the highlights of the Brussels fair when it returns at the end of January
After the uncertainty of the pandemic, the art market bounced back in 2022, but what challenges will the new year bring?
While Peter Strickland’s most recent feature sends up sound artists, Georgina Starr’s short makes for a more challenging listen
George II gave his god-daughter a decorative silver bowl that was later put to surprisingly practical use
The painter’s house in Suffolk now tells a compelling story about his formative influence
The wines of the Veneto need no introduction, but it’s worth getting to know the ones produced inside the city itself
While the painter’s designs for the Decius Mus cycle were used to create several sets of tapestries, the version now in Kilkenny Castle in Ireland is in a class of its own
A new book turns the staple into a star and unscrambles its significance beyond the kitchen
Street lights, kiosks and benches are easy to ignore, but they can make all the difference to how a city look and feels
Working in an Italian city with no Roman past allowed painters and sculptors to put their own spin on classical antiquity
The artist’s mastery of unusual materials gave her a real edge over her peers
Robert Bevan’s call to require a lot less from our public monuments has much to recommend it
Giorgio Vasari’s famous collection of Renaissance drawings was dispersed after his death, and scholars have been trying track down its contents for centuries
The artist’s excoriating images have long set the standard for political satire
No one could accuse the painter of flattering his subjects, but he was certainly painstaking about capturing them on canvas