Architecture
Home of Henry Ossawa Tanner—one of the first internationally renowned African American artists—faces demolition
A local grassroots group has begun a fundraising campaign to save a piece of local Black history in North Philadelphia
Notre Dame's fresh interior—cleaned with controversial latex paste—will deliver a 'shock', restoration chief promises
Conservationists raise concerns that by cleaning the Paris cathedral's fire-damaged interior stonework it will become "artificially bright"
London's National Gallery revamp row: is it a sensitive makeover or like 'an airport lounge'?
Plus, contemporary art in Lagos and Chagall's falling angel
Taliban government approves conservation work on historic synagogue in Afghanistan
Go ahead given to a restoration project to preserve two historic sites associated with the Jewish community that once resided in Herat
No to Modernism, yes to arts and crafts: a look at the creative tastes of King Charles III
The monarch's gardens at Highgrove are the purest example of his late-Victorian-inspired vision
Twenty-five years after it opened, artists still find it hard to love the Guggenheim Bilbao
Architect Frank Gehry claimed his design for the Spanish satellite museum was neutral and would not compete with the art within—did he succeed?
Sound installation puts voice of artist Maggie Jencks back into the Postmodern house she helped create in London
Edwin Heathcote—'keeper of meaning' at The Cosmic House built by the Postmodernist theorist Charles Jencks and his wife Maggie—explains how a sound work is bringing the building back to life
England’s late-Georgian churches—long dismissed as 'mere preaching boxes'—are reappraised in new book
Built for a booming population, their architecture has been unfairly maligned, argues this survey
Getty Foundation launches $3.1m programme to preserve Black architects' work
The two-year grant Preserving Black Modernism extends the foundation's larger initiative to protect Modernist architecture
Ai Weiwei and museum architects Sanaa win £100,000 Praemium Imperiale art prizes
The annual award, under the patronage of Japan’s Imperial Family, spans five categories including painting, sculpture and architecture
New publication brings Norwegian medieval wooden church—an art history Sleeping Beauty—to ravishing life
It may lie in a remote fjord but the Viking-built stave structure sits within a far wider context
Community-centred art pavilion to be unveiled at London's Notting Hill Carnival
The artist Alvaro Barrington and architect Sumayya Vally lean into the carnival's place as a robust "site of artistic creation"
From the archive | a first glimpse of Storm King Art Center’s $45m redesign
The celebrated upstate New York sculpture park will begin an overhaul of its grounds to enhance visitor experience and biodiversity
Qatar ramps up cultural programme ahead of Fifa World Cup with museum previews and extensive exhibition programme
French curators take the reins at the country's new museums
Historic Beirut house damaged in city's devastating port explosion is reconstructed at Victoria & Albert Museum in London
The work charts an architect’s personal crusade to restore one of the finest remaining examples of Ottoman-Venetian homes in Old Beirut.
Williams College Museum of Art selects Brooklyn-based architects SO-IL for new building
The museum is currently housed in the university's former library building
London's Royal College of Art—whose graduates include Tracey Emin and David Hockney—doubles size of its Battersea campus
The £135m development is designed by Herzog & de Meuron
John Harris—an architectural historian and eagle-eyed connoisseur—has died, aged 90
A scholar of Inigo Jones and William Chambers, Harris mounted landmark exhibitions based on the RIBA drawings collection that he so radically transformed
Historic English villa—built by royal mistress to escape her 'stinker' of a husband—reopens after restoration
Henrietta Howard's Marble Hill is a rare surviving example of such a home, and even rarer as one created by a woman
Book reveals the perilous life and times of Stalin’s most celebrated architect
Boris Iofan, a Jewish architect born in Odesa—whose buildings included the Communist behemoth the “House on the Embankment”—built what the dictator demanded, creating architecture as an instrument of power
Ghanaian pavilion: returning country's presentation to spill out across Venice
For its second appearance at the Biennale, Ghana will install modular bamboo structures in locations around the city
Musée D’Orsay takes a trip through Gaudí’s fantastical world in new exhibition
Immersive show at the Parisian museum aims to show the varied output of the master of Catalan Modernism and go beyond his most famous work, the Sagrada Família
From torture to cream tea: new book chronicles the history of Britain’s castles
Eyewitness accounts from behind the gates of fortresses dating from the seventh century to now bring these imposing buildings to life
Photographer chronicles the destruction of the 'Ukrainian Stalingrad'
Stanislav Ostrous has been risking his life to photograph the architecture of Kharkiv, one of the first Ukrainian cities to be attacked by Russian forces
Book offers overdue estimation of Decimus Burton, an architect of Classical class
The acclaimed 19th-century architect's structures were once described insipidly as having “gentlemanly reticence”
Frank Gehry unveils new design for $350m arts school building in downtown Los Angeles
The new building for the Colburn School, an important music and dance institution, is expected to be complete in 2025
Metropolitan Museum picks Mexican architect Frida Escobedo for $500m revamp of Modern and contemporary art wing
Escobedo, the first woman to design a wing at the museum, was chosen over candidates including David Chipperfield, Ensamble Studio and other firms
Brazilian Modernist building struck by fire receives Getty conservation grant
The Jorge Machado Moreira-designed architecture and urbanism building of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro has received a $240,000 grant from the Getty Foundation to support the conservation of its archive
Decolonising South Asian architecture after British imperialism is the focus of new MoMA show
The exhibition chronicles efforts by architects in the region to adapt the tenets of international modernism to their material and cultural realities
New takes on Old Masters in a landmark of Old Hollywood
New York-based Half Gallery has taken over the home of Dorothy Arzner, one of the most successful lesbians in Hollywood in the first half of the 20th century