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‘It has always been a museum of the future’ – at the original Smithsonian
The Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall has finally reopened – and it remains as forward-looking as ever
Fashion is in dire need of more of Thierry Mugler’s thrilling sense of drama
It was hard to be indifferent to the designer’s larger-than-life creations, which is exactly what he wanted
The Georgian billionaire who is digging up the nation’s most majestic trees
Salomé Jashi’s film ‘Taming the Garden’ documents how a tree-hogging former prime minister is pillaging the landscape to create a private paradise
Dress code – decrypting Gainsborough’s dazzling boy portraits
‘The Blue Boy’ is heavily influenced by Van Dyck’s grand manner. But what did the artist mean by dressing up his young subject in this way?
A total artist – in memoriam Meat Loaf
Rakewell pays tribute to the late, great Marvin Lee Aday, who combined art forms with an originality matched only by Richard Wagner
Yves Saint Laurent aux Musées
Six museums in Paris celebrate the breadth and depth of the fashion designer’s appreciation of French culture
Has the Humboldt Forum got it horribly wrong?
The rebuilt Prussian palace is finally open, but the debate about how – and whether – it should house collections from Asia and Africa rumbles on
From the Thames Tideway Tunnel to Taipei – the year ahead in architecture
In London, the River Thames is the centre of attention, while starchitects have big plans in Sydney and Taipei
How Fabergé cornered the market in gifts for the Edwardian elite
The firm of Fabergé is synonymous with the Russian Imperial family, but its fabulous baubles soon became a must-have for elites across Europe
Are Scotland’s baronial castles worth saving?
The best Scotch baronial buildings epitomise the sophisticated planning required by a mid Victorian household. But have they had their day?
Falcons: The Art of the Hunt
This show in Washington, D.C., explores how the art of falconry took wing from the Arab world to China and Byzantium
The peculiar perfectionism of Domenico Gnoli
In the six years before his tragically early death, the Italian artist zoomed in on the details of the everyday – to supremely unsettling effect
Hollywood’s Waterloo – the art of playing Napoleon
Ridley Scott is pressing ahead with his biopic about Bonaparte – but Rakewell has a modest proposal regarding the leading man
Geniuses of the place – the award-winning artists standing their ground in Chicago
Rachel Cohen spends some quality time with a series of installations and exhibitions by MacArthur Award-winners set throughout the city
The museum openings not to miss in 2022
The new-look Musée de Cluny and the Burrell Collection reopen, while there are also treats in store for fans of Bob Dylan and Serge Gainsbourg
When it came to art, the religions of medieval Spain had a lot in common
Christianity, Judaism and Islam shared a visual language on the Iberian peninsula – but it was a fragile balance at the best of times
Drawn with conviction – a brief history of courtroom art
Like many of the most notorious trials of modern times, Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial has been summed up by a skilful courtroom sketch artist
The fabulous films of Lotte Reiniger
The German director brought fairy tales to gorgeous, animated life with her silhouette films – the earliest of which is as remarkable now as it was in 1926
‘The Rocchetta Mattei is Italy’s Hearst Castle’
Max Norman visits the very peculiar home of an eccentric count who tried to derive electricity from vegetables
Louis Wain, the man who drew cats
The artist’s commercial cat illustrations were hugely popular in his lifetime, but his series of psychedelic kitties have attracted rather more serious attention
Vivienne Westwood’s rococo approach to fashion
The designer’s favourite museum is the Wallace Collection, so it’s no wonder her clothes are full of flourishes from Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard
True to form – Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s touching faith in geometry
In the course of her adventures in abstraction, the artist seemed determined to test herself in every available medium
The art of Christmas parties
The Dickensian illustrator John Leech would have been the ideal artist to capture the spirit of Downing Street festivities – fictional or otherwise
What Stephen Sondheim saw in Georges Seurat
The pointillist painter inspired the composer and lyricist to make his most personal artistic statement
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