Tove Jansson
There was much more to the life and work of Tove Jansson than her signature creations, the Moomins
Käthe Kollwitz
The German artist Käthe Kollwitz suffered darkness and depression but emerges from a show at the Ikon Gallery as an indomitable survivor
Emil Nolde: The primacy of colour
Emil Nolde is a curious and paradoxical artist: a supporter of the Nazis, who in turn proscribed his pictures as “degenerate art”
Draughtsman supreme
Raphael could draw like an angel, as Raphael: The Drawings at the Ashmolean, Oxford, shows
Charles I: King and collector
From martinet to martyr at the Royal Academy's show examining the art collection of Charles I
Music New York
Photographing a city of buskers
Monument to a moment
Why is the BBC's Civilisations such a mess?
No Joy At The Tate
David Hockney's 1979 view of the gallery, as told to Miriam Gross
City where history is still being made
'The last time we were in Kiev together, I was a toddler and my mother a young painter with dissident views'
Capitalist rebirth of Hoxha’s hellhole
Tirana, capital of Albania, has been transformed — a bustling, revitalised city, far from the repressive dictatorship of the past
The naked and the dead, Nevada-style
"The first unusual characteristic was that Hof was a self-described pimp, the owner of several brothels in rural Nevada. The second was that, by the time election day came around, Hof was
Opposites meet in the land of Scrugletopia
The debate between Sir Roger Scruton and Terry Eagleton enhances our national discourse