2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (226+ words) For the first time since it was originally created nearly 1,000 years ago, the Bayeux Tapestry has been unveiled to the UK public at the British Museum. But what is the story behind the stitching? A king sends his brother-in-law across…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (509+ words) Putting a statue of a Black woman on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth is important because ordinary people like me have rarely been granted a lasting presence in the grand civic spaces, says Daniella Maison Britain has never suffered much indecision…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (555+ words) 22 Parkside was created by architects Richard and Su Rogers between 1968 and 1970 The National Trust has been given 22 Parkside, the influential Wimbledon home designed by Richard Rogers that inspired Paris’s Centre Pompidou and the Lloyd’s of London building. Described by the…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (511+ words) Yellow tentacles decorated with rhythmic patterns of dots swirl around a room, the patterns echoed on the floor and the walls. Reflections bounce off mirrors, blurring the boundaries of the space at Amsterdam 's Stedelijk Museum. The installation — specially created…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (183+ words) For centuries, Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar has been more than a marketplace. Behind its crowded passageways, generations of craftspeople have made, repaired and restored the objects that eventually emerge for sale. In workshops and in narrow streets surrounding the bazaar, casters…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (131+ words) Magnani Rocca Foundation robbery: €6 million Cézanne painting recovered months after museum heist in Italy The Independent €6 million Cézanne painting recovered months after museum heist - Italian police have recovered three stolen artworks by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse, valued at millions…...