Anna Somers Cocks

Culture fights back in Tunisia

Sufi-inspired exhibition aims to rescue Islam from the extremists

Grand Tour puts countryside on contemporary art map

Regional museums and stately homes in heart of England aim to attract more foreign visitors by treating visitors like modern m'lords

From the archive | A shared pride: the Rothschilds yesterday, today and tomorrow

Jacob, Lord Rothschild, is one of the great benefactors of the English museum scene in both time and money

Richard Armstrong interview: Guggenheim's director on its projects in Helsinki, Abu Dhabi and back home in New York

Foundation and Finnish partners seek best architect for proposed Nordic satellite while Frank Gehry refines plans for Saadiyat Island museum&nbsp; <br>

The Rothschild collection that got away

The British Museum reopens the Waddesdon Bequest Wunderkammer, funded by Lord Rothschild

Artnews

Brian Sewell travels across India—with a donkey

Anna Somers Cocks is charmed by the story of Mr B, accompanied by a donkey and a stout umbrella

Artist Christoph Büchel’s 'Mosque' played frivolously with fire

Far from furthering tolerance, this biennale project has irritated intercultural relations

Artist Christoph Büchel’s 'Mosque' played frivolously with fire

Far from furthering tolerance, this biennale project has irritated intercultural relations

Icelandic pavilion: Venice gets its first (temporary) mosque

Christoph Büchel addresses the lack of a mosque in the Italian city

Hi, Biennale Crowd: did you know Venice is dying for these six reasons?

What you can do despite too many cruise ships, rising sea level and with no one in charge

Ancestral home of the last Knight of Glin for sale

Restored with passion by Desmond FitzGerald, co-founder of the Irish Georgian society, it is on the market at €6.5m, contents extra

Migrant workers in Abu Dhabi lose out as subcontractors exploit loophole

New York University promises to close “compliance gap” on Saadiyat Island as museum projects come under fresh scrutiny

Renewal in the Arab world to come from women and the young, says French president

Last month’s conference at the Institut du Monde Arabe acquired special meaning after Charlie Hebdo

Museumsarchive

Academic warmth and icy antiquities at Kallos gallery launch

Lorne Thyssen's antiquities gallery opened in London’s Davies Street last month

UAEarchive

Sharjah looks East and West during 11th biennial

Biennial embraces divergent ways of seeing the world, despite growing censorship in the Gulf

A true icon: Pietro Annigoni’s 1955 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II

The story of the royal portrait that has most deeply embedded itself in British consciousness and was adopted all over the Commonwealth

May 2011archive

Gian Enzo Sperone: 'The nature of the art market has changed for ever'

The Italian dealer and co-founder of Sperone Westwater spoke to us in 2011 about botany, the difference between European and US galleries and why the "big gallery" systems won't last

Anna Mariani talk links Bracelli with Dalí

A review of 17th century Genoese artist and the 20th century Surrealist

Piranesiarchive

Inside Piranesi’s prisons on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale

An immersive, digital film at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini reimagines the artist’s dark fantasies as if in three dimensions

From the archive | £5m Guercino returns to Spencer House, its historic home

Purchase begins final phase of Jacob Rothschild’s visionary restoration of one of London’s few surviving aristocratic town palaces

Featuresarchive

The Warburg Institute is fighting for its life as University of London cuts corners

The famous library founded by Aby Warburg for a special kind of research may lose its essential nature

No, not Madonna the singer in the V&A's new Medieval and Renaissance galleries

How the Victoria & Albert Museum’s new Medieval and Renaissance galleries have dealt with our ignorance of Christianity

Are we colonialising Middle Eastern art?

As the Middle East increasingly becomes a producer and consumer of contemporary art, the role of the West as 'tastemaker' grows progressively more troubling

Art Baselarchive

Forty years of Art Basel: From Stübli to global hub

Artists, buyers, sellers, organisers, critics and restaurateurs have recorded their memories of Art Basel’s first four decades

Art Baselarchive

"A new kind of freedom in looking": Remembering the birth of Art Basel on its fortieth anniversary

Artists, buyers, sellers, organisers, critics and restaurateurs have recorded their memories of Art Basel’s first four decades