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EDITORIAL

Time to brush up the tactile values

A visit to a great art fair such as TEFAF is a reminder of some fundamental but undervalued aspects of art history.

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ARCHITECTURE

Save these houses

A new report highlights the threats to one of Europe's least-known legacies of historic buidlings: the country houses of Silesia.

February 2010

For the fallen

Emily Prince's project currently on show at the Saatchi Gallery, London, has found a way to reinvigorate a challenging genre: the war memorial.

January 2010

Doomed – we're all doomed

The climate change conference in Copenhagen was accompanied by exhibitions of contemporary art about global warming. Did they suceed in making us think deeply?

December 2009

The modern Old Masters

We are often told that Old Master galleries need to break down boundaries between the art of the past and that of today – but who actually benefits from this argument?

February 2010

Art in Ballard's shadow

Recent and upcoming shows explore J.G. Ballard's influence on the visual arts, and an exhibition on art and magic proves unsettling.

December 2009

The outsiders

A ramshackle building in Primrose Hill is the home to a new museum of everything, a display of outsider art that has mainstream artists queuing up to praise it.

November 2009

Manhattan yards

Two major artists came under the spotlight with the opening of a museum by Maya Lin and three new versions of Alan Kaprow's 'Yard'.

February 2010

Cathedrals of steel

A journey from London to Berlin suggests that railway stations are reclaiming the architectural status they enjoyed in the 19th century.

January 2010

City under siege

Despite local opposition and criticism, St Petersburg is being spoiled by developlers in the name of modernisation.

December 2009

The new Neues

Berlin's Neues Museum has reopened. How justified was David Chipperfield's determination to repair the building rather than restore it?