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“Don’t you think ribbon-skirted women should rule the world?”

THERE ARE MANY FORKING PATHS, in life as in art, through the social and political construct that is Britain. At Tate Britain, a rehang of the biggest collection of the nation’s cultural patrimony, from the Tudor period to the present, unfolds chronologically across thirty-nine rooms. Divided by the three-hundred-foot-long Duveen Galleries (which are always devoted to temporary commissions or displays), rooms to the west, whose walls are sumptuously colored in hues of deep blue, mahogany, emera...

Alex Farquharson, the director of Tate Britain, opens up on the thinking behind a top-to-bottom reassessment of the largest collection of British art in the world

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María Gainza's latest novel follows the trail of an enigmatic, brilliant forger with intriguing results.

Novelists, including Mario Vargas Llosa, writing in Spanish and recently translated into English, capture the spirit of a vibrant literary tradition.

London auction house Dreweatts is offering a rare work by one of England’s earliest known female portrait painters at a sale on May 26.

a href= http://www.dreweatts.com target= _blank Dreweatts /a will offer an artwork attributed to the first ever female portrait painter in Britain

Maria Gainzas latest novel follows the trail of an enigmatic, brilliant forger with intriguing results.

In María Gainza’s mystery “Portrait of an Unknown Lady,” the truth of Buenos Aires’s shady art underworld is in the eye of the beholder.