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Getting to the High

The High Museum of Art. Built in the 80s, it boasts a celebrated collection of classic to contemporary art, as…

8 years ago

The concrete buildings of Brutalism are beautiful

The exceptional brilliance of 1960s architecture comes partly from technical improvements. In its versatility and strength, reinforced concrete was vastly…

8 years ago

Best summer crime fiction, as recommended by a criminologist

A criminologist with a passion for crime fiction. It sounds a bit of a cliché, but crime thrillers may have…

8 years ago

Abbas Kiarostami, Palme d’Or-winning Iranian film-maker, dies aged 76

Celebrated Iranian director, whose Taste of Cherry won Cannes’ top prize in 1997, remained in the country after the Islamic…

8 years ago

Peacock and Vine by AS Byatt review – Mariano Fortuny and William Morris, masters of design

Byatt teases out the similarities and contrasts between two multifaceted makers, who each gave their name to famous brands, in…

8 years ago

Tate Modern’s Switch House review – brain-fizzing art to power a pyramid

Supersized sculpture, live performance and piles of goo get the airing they deserve in an expansion full of surprise –…

8 years ago

The Louvre’s missing pyramid and the magic of trompe l’oeil

Muralist JR has cast a spell over the Paris museum’s glass canopy in a work that recalls the Renaissance’s eye-fooling…

8 years ago

How the West could (and should) have saved Palmyra

And the West? Well, for all the weeping and wailing over Palmyra, the bottom line is that a UNESCO listing…

9 years ago

Chinese artist’s image of dying grandmother vies for BP portrait award

karouzo –  a place for the arts This article titled “Chinese artist’s image of dying grandmother vies for BP portrait…

9 years ago

Story of cities #13: Barcelona’s unloved planner invents science of ‘urbanisation

Constricted by its medieval walls, Barcelona was suffocating – until unknown engineer Ildefons Cerdà came up with a radical expansion…

9 years ago

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