British decorative arts
Art marketpreview
From a lively New Deal-era fresco study to an illuminated Rauschenberg edition: our pick of the highlights from February's sales
Plus, a Charles II-era silver-gilt vases, an avant-garde Cuban painting and a rare Tintin comic book cover
Booksreview
Spend, spend, spend: what lies behind the Stuarts’ taste for extravagant buildings and interiors
The turbulent period’s flashy architectural projects aimed to send out a powerful message, new book reveals
Museums & Heritagepreview
In the Met’s British galleries, a tale of artisans spurred by entrepreneurial forces
Installation weaves a 400-year narrative with global and sometimes dark threads
Victoria & Albert Museumarchive
The brilliantly intelligent, new British Galleries should succeed in putting decorative arts and the museum itself back on the map
If architecture is the mother of the arts then this is the whole family