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When it comes to conjuring the uncanny atmosphere and impossible logic of dreams, the Czech film-maker has few equals
Though some regard it as provocative, it’s fairer to say that the museum’s sprucing-up of its paintings galleries is thought-provoking
A new life of the auteur lays bare the obsessiveness behind his films and what it cost everyone around him
The Mayfair institution contains scores of paintings of dogs who had jobs and some rather more pampered pets
Ever since F.W. Murnau adapted Bram Stoker’s Dracula for his seminal film Nosferatu, the vampire has haunted the modern imagination
Once overlooked by both artists and collectors, the urgency of landscape studies holds an obvious appeal for modern audiences
The German director brought fairy tales to gorgeous, animated life with her silhouette films – the earliest of which is as remarkable now as it was in 1926
With human contact all but banned, an exhibition about touch was always going to provoke mixed feelings
Kettle’s Yard shows off its unrivalled collection of work by the mariner-turned-painter, for whom every boat had ‘a beautiful soul shaped like a fish’
The inspiration behind Batman’s Joker and many a monster movie, Paul Leni’s ‘The Man Who Laughs’ is a masterpiece of Expressionist cinema
A documentary about the unlikely friendship between an artist and the man who stole her work raises tantalising questions about image-making and ownership
A celebration of the late actor’s star turn as the tormented artist in Vincente Minnelli’s biopic of 1956
December 2024
Emma Crichton-Miller
Apollo
Christina Makris
Christina Riggs
Rakewell
This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites
The surreal films of Jan Švankmajer
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Has the Fitzwilliam still got the hang of things?
Though some regard it as provocative, it’s fairer to say that the museum’s sprucing-up of its paintings galleries is thought-provoking