IT was a clear early spring day, the breeze light and the sands empty. Sea and land seemed to go on forever, their divisions blurred by light and distance. Brigitte Wetherby breathed in the salty air

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

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

“As movers and the moved both know”, John Updike noted, “books are heavy freight ... They make us think twice about changing addresses.” Books: A manifesto, or, How to build a library begins with the

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

TRANSPORT for London (TfL) has announced five new works in its rich and varied Art on the Underground programme, which turns London into a vast public art gallery, for 2026. The new commissions will g