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

David Khalili ©Charlie Bibby From COLLECTING May 12, 2012

A leap of faith

David Khalili talks about why he embraced Islamic art – and how it can help to build bridges

Vuillard’s portrait, ‘Madame Hessel at the Seashore’ ©Bridgeman Art Library May 12, 2012

Passions and portraits

The artist Edouard Vuillard channelled domestic friction into ravishingly claustrophobic canvases

Mohamed Abla's 'Being Together' ©FT 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

Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, called Antico 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

Jade coffin 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

‘Oxen Resting’ (c1910), by John Singer Sargent 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

A photo by László Moholy-Nagy of the Prellerhaus building (1927) ©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

Anish Kapoor ©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

From WORLD May 4, 2012

Occupy pledges to ‘un-Frieze’ art fair

Inaugural New York ‘mall’ sparks controversy

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