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An art magazine for people who love to look: the great artists and the studios of today, how art is made, where to see it, how to collect it and how to live with it.
From a Florentine workshop to a silver studio in New York, twelve artists and the movements that link them, with an honest look at how fame in art is made.
Look a lot, set a budget, ask good questions and keep the papers. A practical walk through your first purchase, from the first gallery visit to the day the work is on your wall.
From a Florentine workshop to a silver studio in New York, twelve artists and the movements that link them, with an honest look at how fame in art is made.
He changed his name dozens of times and designed one of the most reproduced images in the world in his seventies. A portrait of Hokusai and the woodblock prints that crossed the globe.
From earth colours to Prussian blue and the paint tube, how artists got their colours, why ultramarine was so precious and how colour contrasts work on the eye.
Gallery, Kunstverein, Kunsthalle, museum: the doors look alike, but what happens behind them differs. A clear guide to who does what, for visitors and buyers.
Behind every artwork that changes hands sits a paper trail. What provenance proves, what certificates and condition reports can and cannot tell you, and how to keep your own file.
Painter, engineer, anatomist and serial non-finisher: how a notary’s son from Vinci left only a handful of paintings and still became one of the most famous artists in history.
From caricatures in Le Havre to the great Water Lilies in Paris: how Claude Monet spent more than sixty years chasing light, and gave a whole movement its name almost by accident.
Behind the upturned moustache and the publicity stunts stood a meticulous craftsman. Salvador Dalí’s art begins and ends on the rocky coast of Catalonia.
Seventeen movements in one compact guide: when they happened, what they wanted, how to recognise them on a museum wall and which artists to look for first.
Heavy legs, glazed eyes, a hundred paintings and none remembered. Museum fatigue is real, and a few simple habits keep it at bay in the Louvre or the Met.
Catalogues, reserves, hammer prices and the charges that come after. How an art auction works, what you really pay and how to bid without losing your head.
Sculptor first, painter by obligation, architect in old age: Michelangelo worked for more than seventy years and left works in Florence and Rome that millions still queue to see.
In barely ten years Vincent van Gogh went from late beginner to one of the most loved painters in history. His letters, and his sister-in-law, explain how.
Andy Warhol took soup cans, film stars and newspaper photographs and made them into art. His questions about fame, repetition and brands have never gone away.
Most damage to art at home happens slowly and is easy to prevent. What museums know about light, humidity, framing and handling, translated into a few everyday habits.
A miller’s son from Leiden who conquered Amsterdam, lost nearly everything and kept painting his own face with unflinching honesty, from confident youth to old age.
Gold leaf, flat ornament and frank portraits made Gustav Klimt the defining painter of Vienna around 1900. Here is how he got there and where to see the work.
How photographs found their way into museums, what separates a silver print from a pigment print, and why the date of a print matters as much as the date of the picture.
Pavilions in a Venetian garden, a hundred days in Kassel: how the art world’s great survey exhibitions began, how they are run and how to plan a visit.
Look a lot, set a budget, ask good questions and keep the papers. A practical walk through your first purchase, from the first gallery visit to the day the work is on your wall.
A commission gives you a work no one else owns. How to find the right artist, write a brief, agree the terms in writing and leave room for the artist’s own ideas.
For most of history, art was made for buildings. From frescoes and stained glass to Kunst am Bau and land art, how artists and architects shape spaces together.
Barely three dozen paintings, most of them small, almost all set in a few quiet rooms. How Vermeer turned window light, ultramarine and patience into some of the most loved pictures in art.
From plotter drawings in the 1960s to video, net art, immersive projections and AI, a calm guide to art made with machines and to how museums keep it alive.
A glass in one hand, a crowd in front of the paintings and not a familiar face in sight. Here is how to relax, look properly and even talk to the artist.
