• In praise of the Wallace Collection • An interview with Etel Adnan • Chippendale at 300 • A new era for Irish arts funding
Plus: Masterpiece and Art Basel previews, Cedric Morris’s paintings, and the ethics of live animals in art
How to give back looted objects | An interview with Alex Da Corte | Versailles enters the 21st century
Can American art escape the culture wars? | Poking fun at 18th-century Paris | Donald Duck’s fowl play
The art of divination | an interview with Jake Grewal | will the market recover in 2025?
Rachel Ruysch | What museums think about climate protests | Apollo Awards 2024
Nothing gets a certain type of viewer more hot under the cravat than anachronisms in period drama – but the best inaccuracies are artistically liberating
The innovations of artists in the first half of the 14th century created new pathways for painting for centuries to come
Working in the new medium of pastels, Maurice-Quentin de La Tour portrayed the elites of his day in a style to suit the hedonism of the age
At its peak, the Mughal empire brought together scholars and artists of different languages and faiths to create art fit for kings
What would Jane Austen say?
Nothing gets a certain type of viewer more hot under the cravat than anachronisms in period drama – but the best inaccuracies are artistically liberating