July/August 2022

This year's event aims to entice a wider range of collectors and exhibitors back to the galleries of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris

The dealers of Mayfair and St James’s have banded together with the Philharmonia Orchestra for a special series of concerts this year

As the UK falls behind in the global market, Jane Morris considers the route to reclaiming its competitive status

Artists have long found beauty in the mundane, but choosing to represent everyday subject matter is a privilege that requires the luxury of time

Wolf’s Cove, the model village in Gloucestershire designed by Charles Paget Wade, is proof of the architect’s commitment to creating ideal communities

Twenty-five years after it was first published, ‘The Book of Jewish Food’ remains an invaluable record of the Jewish diaspora and its manifold culinary traditions

The Gilded Age institution renowned for its Eurocentric holdings is re-evaluating its history and winning over a wider audience

Sixty years ago the Royal Academy announced the sale of a cartoon by Leonardo da Vinci to fund its activities, but did it make the right decision?

All that remains of the city’s two medieval castles is the empty shell of a single tower, now imaginatively restored by Hugh Broughton Architects

Judging where to draw the line between maintaining a safe silence and tacitly endorsing the war in Ukraine has become a pressing matter

Curator James Green takes a close look at a carving by Bamigboye, a sculptor who represented the beating heart of his community in the early 20th century

As museums make promises to return looted works of art, provenance is now of paramount importance in the market

The graphic designer Jean Carlu was the first artist to create a label for the historic wine estate in 1924, marking the beginning of a long-standing tradition

As the National Gallery prepares for its upcoming bicentenary, its director Gabriele Finaldi discusses his vision for the future

A glittering array of objects and manuscripts from around the world shows off the astonishing diversity of the permanent collection

A groundbreaking study looks at the slave labour on which France’s maritime ambitions depended

Van Leo’s portraits capture a lost world and are in a class of their own, writes Raphael Cormack

Ramily was a pioneer who captured the newly independent country as it wanted to be seen

An exhibition at the Musée Marmottan Monet considers how artists have tried to represent feeling through the centuries

For all his care to balance the traditions of his Venetian forebears with the style of his US contemporaries, Afro Basaldella came to be seen as an Abstract Expressionist

The Musée d’Orsay’s survey of the French sculptor is admirably thorough, but his art was more modern than we’re often led to believe