As the first UK retrospective of the record-breaking German photographer’s work appears at the Hayward Gallery in London, the gallery’s director, Ralph Rugoff, explains why he considers Gursky to…
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Art critic Alastair Sooke and Christie’s Harriet Drummond examine other sublime examples from a series made by Turner in Switzerland in the 1840s. More than 150 years after his death, J.M.W.…
Kay Sutton, director of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, decodes the Ripley Scroll, a truly magical 17th-century alchemical treatise with a ‘rich and detailed mix of cryptic verse, legend and…
Old Master drawings specialist Furio Rinaldi looks at works by Italian artists across three centuries, explaining how – ‘like a fingerprint’ – they can offer insights into the creative process.
Featured in Christie's upcoming "Beyond Imagination: Outsider and Vernacular Art Featuring the Collection of Marjorie and Harvey Freed"…
Bloomberg Pursuits' James Tarmy went inside the secure underground vault at Christie's, to check out some very expensive paintings before they are showcased and auctioned. At the November 15th…
Today in a trio of multi-language tweets, the Louvre Abu Dhabi announced that…
Thanks in part to the dry Egyptian desert, this beautiful wood sculpture has survived for some 4,000 years. Antiquities specialist Laetitia Delaloye describes the remarkable piece ahead of its…
