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Why everyone loves Keith Haring

The pop artist believed that artists should make work for the masses. Decades after his death, his images are everywhere

27 Mar 2024

Who’s afraid of immersive art?

As displays using digital techniques to enliven familiar works of art become more prevalent, can they change our understanding of the art itself?

27 Mar 2024

The best cellars are practically museums of fine wine

Underground storage can be dark and sinister, but when it’s used for wine, it can become a place of deep pleasure

27 Mar 2024

How to eat beans in the baroque style

A rustic painting by Annibale Carracci highlights how the act of eating in art has long been tied to class and status

27 Mar 2024

Fjord focus – how Ibsen inspired the art of Edvard Munch

The Norwegian painter was referring to Ibsen’s play ‘Ghosts’ when he painted his dream-like landscape of 1906

27 Mar 2024

Licence to Rome – how the Dutch got a taste for the Italian capital

Maarten van Heemskerck’s expert renderings of Rome inspired his countrymen to see the city for themselves

27 Mar 2024

What’s next for the Met?

As the Metropolitan Museum of Art enters a new era, its past decisions are still sending ripples into the present, so what does the future hold?

24 Mar 2024

Rembrandt’s sorrowful Jeremiah shows the painter at his best

Koen Bulckens of the Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp explains what makes the painter’s portrait of ‘the weeping prophet’ such an emotional tour de force

20 Mar 2024

Roger Hilton’s appetite for destruction

The painter’s desire for food and drink can be traced throughout a collection of obsessive shopping lists dotted with drawings

20 Mar 2024

How to revive your gothic chapel

Joe Tilson’s stained-glass window in Midlothian was one of his last works and suffuses a 15th-century place of worship with just a hint of grooviness

19 Mar 2024

Acquisitions of the Month: February 2024

A Chardin still life and a pair of wooden sculptures from medieval Japan are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month

9 Mar 2024

Parma’s museum multiplex is now even harder to miss

The Palazzo della Pilotta contains three museums, a historic library and one of the oldest theatres in Europe – but, until its recent refurbishment, has often been overlooked

7 Mar 2024

Lynda Benglis’s wearable sculptures are a perfect fit

There’s a thin but fluid line between fine art and fashion for the artist who is now making accessories for Loewe

5 Mar 2024

The sentimental side of Angelica Kauffman

In the 18th century, Europe was swept by a trend for art that revealed the inner lives of its subjects – and the Swiss painter encapsulated the ideas of the age

1 Mar 2024

How Italy remade Willem de Kooning

At the age of 65, the artist went to Rome a painter and returned to the United States a sculptor. It wasn’t the first time the city had changed him

26 Feb 2024

‘I know exactly what I am looking for’ – Helen Hamlyn on collecting with purpose

The philanthropist’s pursuits range from collecting Asian art to restoring ruined buildings

26 Feb 2024

The Georgian avant-gardists who embraced the past

The country’s short-lived independence in the early 20th century gave birth to a thrilling artistic movement that is only now being rediscovered

26 Feb 2024

The slippery Surrealism of Pierre Roy

The French artist was largely ignored by his peers, but his uncanny painting of a snake is a masterpiece

26 Feb 2024

The Renaissance palace putting Brueghel and Braque side by side

The renovated Fondation Bemberg in Toulouse is a fitting home for its founder’s eclectic art collection

26 Feb 2024

Message on a bottle – the Australian vineyard giving a boost to local art

This dynamic young wine producer was quick to become a corking success – and is making sure artists from the region are in on the fun

26 Feb 2024

Valentine’s Day is no feast for food lovers

Why are there no dishes or treats traditionally associated with Valentine’s Day? The answer lies in shifts in farming and changing beliefs about food

12 Feb 2024

Acquisitions of the Month: January 2024

A recently identified painting by Guercino and a series of Joseph Cornell boxes are among the most significant works to have entered public collections last month

9 Feb 2024

Holidaying with the Habsburgs

Every summer, the emperor Franz Josef celebrated his birthday in the ‘earthly paradise’ of Bad Ischl, now a European Capital of Culture

2 Feb 2024

Pleasure-seeking in Edo-period Japan

The details of this fine woodblock show there’s even more to a majestic print of a 19th-century courtesan than meets the eye – if you know how to look

2 Feb 2024