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The vibrant sculptural works in wire and metal for which Gertrud Goldschmidt is known are complemented in this major retrospective by etchings, prints and textiles, all of which expose her genius for conjuring movement and energy with the simple line

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How often are paintings hung upside down in museums? It's happened to Matisse, Rothko, Dali, and Van Gogh!

Molly Warnock on the art of Chryssa

SPEAKING AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY in January 1968, the artist Chryssa detailed a disposition toward creative practice that she described as the “cool mind.”1 The term served to telegraph, via contrast, her disdain for certain endeavors aimed at bridging art and life—all of which, in her view, simply reproduced the disordered flux of the “human pattern.” Of particular concern was what she cast as the fundamentally regressive credo of Happenings, with their freewheeling yet ultimately poin...

Other writers have followed literary footsteps to get into authors’ minds, so why not a music lyric?

Sailors fighting, Lennon on sale, all those mice … the single released 50 years ago this week is David Bowie at his most enigmatic. Could a cycling odyssey unravel its mysteries?

Visual Arts Editor James Macfarlane questions the fundamentals of contemporary art.

He played a crucial role in reinvigorating a neglected area of Western art history, bringing figures from the past to life.