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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
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
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
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
The craft of carving from thorns, in the flesh
As an exhibition at the Hunterian in Glasgow shows, the miniature sculptures of the Nigerian artist Justus Akeredolu are a major achievement
The HR crisis hobbling Italian museums
While the appointment or dismissal of directors makes headlines, chronic understaffing is a much more fundamental problem
For Howard Hodgkin, collecting was as important as painting
The artist amassed one of the finest private collections of Indian court paintings, an activity that preoccupied him as much as making art
The art museum in Athens that is making a feminist stand
For one year, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens has an all-female display of works from its collection and an all-female programme
The untamed art of Théodore Géricault
Two hundred years after the painter’s death, his work still has the power to shock and his life remains shrouded in mystery
Forces of Will: Building Chicago – a comic by Claire Barliant
After the demolition of some of Chicago’s best architecture, what lies in store for postmodernist landmark the James R. Thompson Center now that Google owns it?
Acquisitions of the Month: December 2023
A miniature copy of the Apollo Belvedere and a Mesoamerican jade statuette are among the most important works to have entered public collections last month
Getting the hump – the fine art of feasting in the Arab world
What constitutes a delicacy has changed over the centuries, but dining on camel is still a rare luxury
Boxwood miniatures, in a nutshell
William Theiss takes a close look at the pocket-sized sculptures that 15th-century pilgrims thought perfect for private reverie
The doctor who was devoted to Van Gogh
The painter’s final months in the care of Dr Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, a physician as interested in art as he was in medicine, were an extraordinarily productive period
The finest hours of Catherine of Cleves
Diane Wolfthal discusses the dizzying visions of heaven and hell to be found in a medieval prayer book at the Morgan Library
The Olympic Games, a city built on sand, and a painful divorce – the year ahead in architecture
With Paris preparing to play host, Neom remaining elusive and London landmarks undergoing major changes, 2024 will be nothing if not interesting
All at sea – the anxious mariners of Marsden Hartley
A briny, brawny late work by Maine’s favourite modernist finds strength in stoic silence
The museum openings not to miss in 2024
Notre Dame is to reopen, the Frick Collection is returning to Fifth Avenue and Scotland celebrates a pair of new or improved institutions
The birth of Impressionism and the centenary of Surrealism – major art anniversaries in 2024
The marking of two seminal movements and a year-long celebration of Caspar David Friedrich combine scholarly heft with popular appeal
The godmothers of conceptual art take centre stage – contemporary highlights in 2024
Yoko Ono and Sophie Calle are the subject of major retrospectives while museums also have more material concerns
Bottle royale – a new look for Napoleon’s favourite champagne
Daniel Arsham has distilled centuries of history into his design for a bottle for Moët & Chandon’s new cuvée
Unfolding the origins of an Ethiopian icon
Christine Sciacca of the Walters Art Museum explains how a processional icon of surprisingly modern design was made and what it means
Arty films to look out for in 2024
New features by Steve McQueen, Kelly Reichardt and Joshua Oppenheimer will give art lovers plenty to get excited about
The festive geese of Christmas past
The festive bird has often been served up by artists and writers including J.M.W. Turner and Charles Dickens
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