The vampire who created the modern world
Ever since F.W. Murnau adapted Bram Stoker’s Dracula for his seminal film Nosferatu, the vampire has haunted the modern imagination
British Museum confirms Parthenon marbles talks with Greece
Plus: John Akomfrah and Grayson Perry knighted, Louvre to limit visitor numbers, and the rest of the week’s top stories
Slow horses and flying starts – the glittering career of Gary Oldman
There’s no denying the actor’s talents, but Rakewell can’t help wishing he would finally direct that film about Eadweard Muybridge, ‘the father of motion pictures’
Acquisitions of the Month: December 2022
A donation of 220 works by Philip Guston from the artist’s daughter and a portrait of one of Louis XV’s most controversial aides are among this month’s highlights
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The museum openings not to miss in 2023
The new-look National Portrait Gallery in London and the International African American Museum in Charleston are among the highlights of the year ahead
The Venetian artists who vied with the ancients
Working in an Italian city with no Roman past allowed painters and sculptors to put their own spin on classical antiquity
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In the studio with… Anthony Daley
The Jamaican-British artist has a penchant for picking up other people’s rubbish and falls in love with the collectors who come to see his work
In the studio with… Uwe Wittwer
The Swiss artist maintains a strict working schedule to make the most of the daylight hours and keeps the writings of W.G. Sebald and Patti Smith close to hand
January 2023
An interview with Mike Nelson
The winners of the Apollo Awards
At home with Gainsborough
Rubens and the tapestry revival
Plus: classical antiquity in Venice, the year ahead for the art market, street style in Paris, and reviews of Lucian Freud in London, Meret Oppenheim in New York and the long-lost drawings of Giorgio Vasari
Sculpture from the scrapyard and Simone Leigh’s first museum survey – contemporary art highlights in 2023
Exhibitions to look forward to include some major retrospectives and shows that pick up where the Venice Biennale left off
What will happen to the art market in 2023?
After the uncertainty of the pandemic, the art market bounced back in 2022, but what challenges will the new year bring?
Super-high skyscrapers and sensitive restorations – the year ahead in architecture
The prospect of more towering edifices on the horizon is hardly cheering, but there are more grounded projects to look forward to
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The major art anniversaries to look out for in 2023
Joshua Reynolds, Sarah Bernhardt and Pablo Picasso are all being celebrated in anniversary events this year
Fiona Tan turns back time in Amsterdam
The artist rifles through archives and our collective imaginations to reshape what we think we know about the past
Plaster master – Maria Bartuszova at Tate Modern, reviewed
The Slovakian sculptor poured and moulded plaster into creations that evoke the body and the natural world in equal measure
Making a song and dance about musicals in the museum
A disappointingly static display at the V&A will make you long for the stage
The film-makers who deserve a fair hearing
While Peter Strickland’s most recent feature sends up sound artists, Georgina Starr’s short makes for a more challenging listen
The mixed messages of Meret Oppenheim
The artist’s mastery of unusual materials gave her a real edge over her peers
The landscape that shaped Gainsborough’s view of the world
The painter’s house in Suffolk now tells a compelling story about his formative influence
‘It’s about a sense of atmosphere’ – an interview with Mike Nelson
As the artist prepares for his show at the Hayward Gallery, he talks about using the remains of today to reimagine the past
Theodoor Rombouts: Virtuoso of Flemish Caravaggism
The Antwerp-born painter had a gift for marrying northern and southern traditions
Spain and the Hispanic World
Works from the Hispanic Society in New York get their first outing in the United Kingdom
Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art considers how the invention of new chalks and pastels encouraged artists to experiment
Illustrating the World: Woodcuts in the Age of Dürer
A rare opportunity to view the complete set of woodcuts from Dürer’s ‘Great Passion’ in the UK
The algorithms that are giving art curators a run for their money
A show at J/M Gallery compares art curating with the shadowy ways in which AI now shapes our online experience