Europe
Asia
Oceania
Americas
Africa
Museums acquired most of their treasures through negotiation, not plunder
Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the
The gargantuan, bewildering Louvre
The power and glory of Parisian art
LAWRENCE LEK. COURTESY THE ARTIST, MMCA, SADIE COLES ...
Why do civilisations that dominated their epoch fail? In an era of autocracy, climate change, the rise of AI and a first-hand understanding of how deadly pandemics can be, it’s a question that seems p
Exhibition of the week Wes Anderson: The Archives ...