In 1990, the sculptor Rachel Whiteread cast the interior of the sitting room of a vacant London house in plaster of Paris to create “Ghost”, a work which the critic Jonathan Jones described as “the so

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In 1900, aged fourteen, Jacques Rivière founded a little journal called L’Avenir (“The Future”) which lasted three years, its print run extending to just five mimeographed copies circulated within his

2025 marked the centenary of Erik Satie’s death, an event honoured by commemorations around the globe, including series of concerts, workshops, exhibitions and guided tours in his birthplace of Honfle

John P. Murphy New Deal Art 336pp. Thames and Hudson. Paperback, £19.99. Seymour Fogel’s “Wealth of the Nation”, installed in 1942 in a federal building in Washington DC, depicts a group of workers en

Lola Young Eight Weeks Looking back, moving forwards, defying the odds 336pp. Penguin. Paperback, £10.99. Lola Young has been a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 2004. She is also an emeri