News & Comment
In pursuit of collectors
The Fitzwilliam Museum is celebrating the centenary of the directorship of Sydney Carlyle Cockerell with an exhibition that makes clear that he was in many ways the first modern museum director.
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CONTEMPORARY ART
Manhattan transfer
The Lower East Side, once home to immigrants and aspiring artists, is no receiving the uptown treatment.
ARCHITECTURE
Shakespeare in stone
The National Trust's plans to acquire Seaton Delaval Hall are a tribute to a genius who has inspired writers and artists for centuries.
December 2008
The best things in life...
The art world's frenetic emphasis on money and fashion is taking a big knock from the global credit crisis – but that provides opportunity to celebrate some unfashionable virtues.
November 2008
The Treasury's little rays of sunshine
The National Galleries in Edinburgh and London and the National Trust have formidable fund-raising tasks in hand, but the targets would be even higher were it not for Britain's tax laws – which could be about to get better.
October 2008
Three cheers for art dealers
Damien Hirst's decision to sell new works at Sotheby's last month was amply justified in financial terms, but artists and collectors will always need dealers.
December 2008
Refreshing the scars
Polish artists evoke their country's war-time past to ask painful questions about its present.
November 2008
Seeing Sound
Moma's show on the impact of new media in the 1960s and 1970s recalls an idealistic age, before art aspired to control its audience.
October 2008
Cool Caledonia
Enterprising gallerists are turning Edinburgh into a major city for collectors, and London gets ready for Frieze.
December 2008
Lost Lululaund
Henry Hobson Richardson's one building outside of America was a house in England, for the celebrated Victorian painter Hubert von Herkomer.
November 2008
Palladian games
The 500th anniversary of Palladio's birth is rightly being celebrated, but his influence on architects has in many ways been pernicious.
October 2008
Cartoon history
A new book and exhibition are celebrating the centenary of Osbert Lancaster – cartoonist, architectural writer and dandy.