How to turn up the heat in a feature film? Make your actors cook in real time
Philip Barantini shot his 90-minute movie about the drama of a busy restaurant service in one take – and it’s nail-biting stuff
The culture ministers who really are culture vultures
Delighted by the fact that the new German culture minister once managed a rock band, Rakewell recalls other culture ministers with an artistic bent
The week in art news – Austrian museums close in national lockdown
Plus: The new German culture minister is Claudia Roth of the Greens, and a Roman villa complex has been uncovered in Rutland
Altered estates – the English country houses that boomed in the post-war period
Adrian Tinniswood’s new book focuses on the aristocrats and rock stars who secured the futures of the houses they owned – or moved into
Performance anxiety – Paul McCarthy makes his audience incredibly uneasy
The artist’s first performance in a decade was a lot, even for the most ‘open-minded’ onlookers
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In the studio with… Shilpa Gupta
The artist’s studio in Mumbai is animated by the rumbling of the railway – and home to a collection of cough-syrup bottles
Cindy Sherman confirms that working from home can be murder
In what now seems a warning from history, the artist’s only feature film is about a magazine editor who is forced to work at home
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The joyful art of Julio Le Parc
The Argentinian-born artist, now in his tenth decade, reflects on a life devoted to trying new things
Spinning yarns with Sheila Hicks
The acclaimed textile artist, a maestro of colour and master manipulator of thread, explains why it’s more interesting to make mistakes
December 2021
• The Apollo Awards 2021
• Botticelli’s taste for the past
• The new Munch museum in Oslo
• How Fabergé seduced Europe
Plus: AI and art history, the material that built London, Tiepolo’s gnocchi-guzzling Punchinellos – and is the M+ museum in Hong Kong still a good idea?
The restorers who took a creative approach to Renaissance paintings
A new study assesses 19th-century interventions on paintings by Giotto and other masters, and their impact on art history
The greatness of Constable’s lateness
In the decade before his death, John Constable developed a freer hand to follow new visions – to astonishing effect
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In Oslo, the mammoth new Munch museum is a surprisingly joyful affair
The vast waterfront complex is a fitting emblem of the painter’s outsized importance to the city
Gal Gadot turns to art crime, with The Rock in hot pursuit
’Red Notice’ may not be most sophisticated heist film, but it’s hard to resist The Rock on the trail of Wonder Woman
The week in art news – Jimmie Durham (1940–2021)
Plus: Etel Adnan (1925–2021); and more art news
The museum that introduced America to modern art
As the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C. celebrates its centenary, the museum is also looking firmly to the future
The Jurassic fossils of the Cotswolds reveal prehistoric secrets – and can help us predict the future
A pair of amateur fossil hunters have uncovered a section of Jurassic sea floor in a sleepy corner of England
Tourist for a day – the Tower of London is quite the tour de force
The Crown Jewels are what the castle is most famous for, but over the centuries it has housed everything from prisoners to military hardware
Admissible evidence – museum directors have their say on vaccine passports
Museum directors in France and Italy seem to agree that requiring proof of vaccination is preferable to being shut – although not everyone is on board
Pulling power – the murky magic of magnet fishing
It’s the aquatic cousin to metal detecting – and an increasing number of devotees are casting off into rivers and canals in search of trash and treasure
Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s–Now
From the arrival of the Windrush generation to the present day, this show at Tate Britain explores how Caribbean-British artists have made their mark
Anna Dorothea Therbusch: A Berlin Woman Artist of the Age of Enlightenment
The artist’s portraits of rulers, writers and scientists, on show at the Gemäldegalerie, make for a lively chronicle of the German Enlightenment
Five Hundred Arhats of Changnyeongsa Temple
A group of ancient stone figures representing disciples of the Buddha, never before seen outside Korea, goes on display in Sydney
North Sea Crossings
A display at the Bodleian in Oxford explores how the literary cultures of England and the Netherlands were closely intertwined
Is the M+ Museum still a good idea?
In Hong Kong’s increasingly repressive political climate, can the M+ Museum sustain the cultural optimism it once promised?