Subversive interventions

I have always wanted to live in a period property, and the quirkiness of this house is so appealing to me,’ says artist Mink Yip of her Worcestershire home. ‘It’s actually made up of three old propert

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

Not many people move into a new home only to find enthusiastic strangers routinely turning up looking for a place to stay the night, but if the house in question was once a youth hostel sequestered in

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

AUTHOR Emma Becker REFLECTS ON HER TWO YEARS WORKING IN A BERLIN BROTHEL, WHERE THE WOMEN SET THE RULES, CHOSE THEIR CLIENTS AND STAYED FIRMLY ON TOP

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