The french affair

It’s a sunny summer afternoon in a verdant corner of the Essex countryside. A pretty pastoral landscape lies before us, with cattle sheltering in the shade of oak trees, rolling green fields, and a gr

Reinventing a home that hasn’t been touched in 30 years is a big task, but designer Mark Howorth was up for the job and even managed to include the art gallery space the owners wanted

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Exhibition of the week Lucian Freud: Drawing into ...

The V&A’s new Schiaparelli exhibition finally gives the outsider her due – lobsters and all

There’s no shortage of great picks at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht, the Netherlands, including a Barbara Hepworth sculpture, a pastel portrait by Dora Maar and two sections of 4th-century Roman mosaics