Emily Cox is a PhD candidate in history of art at Yale University.

Were the Impressionists really so shocking?

Sculptures and their natural surroundings can shape each other in subtle and sometimes visually stunning ways, as these four artworks demonstrate

20 Sep 2024

Olivia Laing’s guide to radical growth

Gardens aren’t just lovesome things. In the writer’s gently rambling book on the subject, they are seedbeds of rebellion too

12 Jul 2024

The making of the Monet myth

Jackie Wullschläger’s biography invites us to take another look at a painter whose canvases make a direct appeal to the eye

18 Mar 2024