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May 13, 2012
Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands, British Library, London
The shaping of a nation’s understanding of place through its poets and writers is the theme of this Olympic London exhibition
Edgelands, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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May 12, 2012
A leap of faith
David Khalili talks about why he embraced Islamic art – and how it can help to build bridges
The Hong Kong moment
The rise of private museums in Asia-Pacific
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May 12, 2012
Passions and portraits
The artist Edouard Vuillard channelled domestic friction into ravishingly claustrophobic canvases
Peter Aspden
The power of painting
The American artists seduced by Florence
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Peter Aspden
May 12, 2012
The power of painting
Anyone looking for signs of the revolution that was to come in the past decade only had to keep an eye on Cairo’s art scene
May 8, 2012
Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronze, The Frick Collection, New York
This show of flashy works by the 15th-century sculptor advertises his considerable mastery of the art of imitation
Spirit of the Bronx at Frieze New York
Aware of the Greek’s gifts
May 6, 2012
The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
This is the largest and most significant exhibition of ancient royal treasures ever to travel outside China
Time raiders
Leonardo da Vinci
Anatomist, The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
May 5, 2012
American dreamscape
An exhibition in Florence highlights the city’s place in the imagination of US artists before the first world war. Rachel Spence reports
Bauhaus’s legacy, by FT architecture critic Edwin Heathcote
Function and frolics
©Hattula Moholy-Nagy/DACS 2012
May 5, 2012
Bauhaus at the Barbican
A new London exhibition shows how the style that became a byword for modernism and function also knew how to enjoy itself, says Jackie Wullschlager
Bauhaus’s legacy, by FT architecture critic Edwin Heathcote
The American artists seduced by Florence
©James Ferguson
Lunch with the FT
May 5, 2012
Anish Kapoor
Over a fusion takeaway feast at his London studio, the artist talks to the FT’s Jackie Wullschlager about sex, psychobiography and the ‘madness’ of his towering new sculpture at London’s Olympic Park
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May 4, 2012
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The power of painting
Anyone looking for signs of the revolution that was to come in the past decade only had to keep an eye on Cairo’s art scene