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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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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 –…

10 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…

10 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…

10 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…

10 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…

10 years ago