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From votive offerings to anatomical models, wax is the perfect material for blurring the boundaries between art and life

When Simon Pettet moved into Dennis Severs’ House in Spitalfields he began to channel the 18th century in the 1980s

The Art Gallery of New South Wales’s extension is too populist and commercially minded for some – but it is full of possibilities

Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo’s sculpture garden in Piedmont is also home to the family rosé

The American artist’s melancholy approach is part of a much punchier tradition says Elisa Germán, co-curator of a show at Harvard Art Museums

The Plateforme 10 project has brought the city’s fine arts, design and photo museums together on the site of a former train yard

At the Kronenhalle in Zurich, the writer was most likely to ask for Fendant de Sion, a wine that deserves to be much better known abroad

After a spell in the doldrums, prices for magnificent carpets from across the continent are starting to soar again

When we think of the biblical folly, it’s Pieter Breugel the Elder’s painting that first comes to mind – but artists and writers are still reimagining it today

The sculptor was regarded as too sensual by classicists and too cold by Romantics, but a more superficial look at his work suggests what he was really up to

The naturalist sketched his discoveries with unmatched dedication, but was unlucky to lose so many of the original specimens at sea

The growing tendency to fold 20th-century makers into the history of modern art often ignores what was truly innovative about their work

Long after David Sassoon’s descendants had entered the highest echelons of English society, their collecting reflected the family’s ties to the Middle East, India and China

The Palais de Danse in St Ives allowed the sculptor’s work to grow in ambition