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The Notre Dame fire: what happens next? Plus, Cold War Steve
We talk about the effects of the fire at Notre Dame, the building’s history, and what happens next. And we speak to satirical artist Christopher Spencer, the man behind the Cold War Steve. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
NewsCathedral of Notre Dame
Artist Wim Delvoye enters design competition to reconstruct Notre Dame
The Belgian, known for his sculptures in a Northern European Gothic style, is already devising a new spire
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Fire destroys roof of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris
The spire has collapsed on the medieval landmark
NewsConservation
The Getty Conservation Institute maps out a plan to preserve the Eames House
The Los Angeles Modernist home was designed and lived in by Charles and Ray Eames
ReviewBook Shorts
Kings, queens but mostly lesser royal hangers-on: the art-historical story of Kensington Palace
The great building as seen through the generations of its occupants
PreviewExhibitions
Masp retrospective to explore Lina Bo Bardi's legacy and influence on Brazilian art
The Italian architect, who made Brazil her "adopted home", designed the eclectic São Paulo museum in the late 1940s
InterviewNational Museum of Qatar
Jean Nouvel: 'desert rose' Qatar museum blooms against the odds
We speak to the French architect about the search for a national landmark and the hurdles that faced the mammoth project
InterviewArt Basel in Hong Kong 2019
David Chipperfield on his design for West Bund Art Museum in Shanghai
The UK architect talks about working in China and the decline of its "funny-shaped" buildings
NewsOpenings
Lost features of John Soane’s dream country home Pitzhanger Manor restored
Architects, conservation experts and paint archaeologists have collaborated on £12m project to reopen west London house
NewsFondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent
Jasper Conran buys Yves Saint Laurent's Villa Mabrouka in Tangier
The villa was the fashion designer's home in the last decades of his life
FeatureExhibitions
How museums are stepping up exhibition design
A wave of innovative exhibition design has graced our museums in recent years. What are the keys to holding the viewer’s gaze?
NewsConservation
Rothko Chapel to be restored, and gain auxiliary buildings
Artist's son says the project will "do right by my father’s vision for the space"
ReviewBooks
A hefty tome on the arts of the Austro-Hungarian belle époque
The extraordinary mitteleuropäische flourishing of all the arts from 1900 to 1914
FeatureLost art
Lost Art: should we rebuild sacked castles and ruined palaces?
Noah Charney examines how historic buildings that were needlessly destroyed can live on today
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in London this weekend
From the dazzling dresses of Dior at the V&A to the grim reality of how architecture can affect your health at the Wellcome Collection
BlogIn the frame
Should a modern extension be tacked on to a 15th-century architectural masterpiece?
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Dresden ballroom returns to gilded glory as part of €300m palace reconstruction
Residential Palace complex, a casualty of Allied bombing in the Second World War, is due to be rebuilt by 2021
NewsConservation
Restored Soviet apartment listed on Airbnb takes guests back in time to ‘1930s Russian utopia’
The 35m sq. one-bedroom flat has been carefully renovated to include avant-garde furniture and design
NewsHeritage
Restorers of Nîmes arena expand their sights
Conservation effort now includes passageways and interior
NewsArchitecture
Hala Wardé dismissed as architect of planned Beirut Museum of Art
Difficulties began when the museum asked HW Architecture to work pro bono
NewsArchitecture
California wildfires threaten architectural landmarks and historic sites
The 19th century Sepulveda Adobe and western movie set Paramount Ranch have been destroyed, but the fate of many other buildings remain unknown
NewsConservation
Modernism award honours preservation of a French school dating from 1933
Prize goes to firm for restoration of a monument to ‘civic Communism’
InterviewMuseums & Heritage
Tristram Hunt unveils plans for V&A East—the Victoria & Albert Museum's satellite London location
Museum will receive the buildings in former Olympic park for free, director says
NewsRestoration
Urgent revamp of William Morris’s country home to go ahead after £4.3m grant
UK National Lottery award will also fund a new education centre at the Victorian designer’s 16th-century Kelmscott Manor
BlogIn the frame
Art stars join the fight against Parkinson’s disease
BlogIn the frame
Bjarke Ingels’ 2016 Serpentine Pavilion pops-up in Toronto
NewsArchitecture
New Russian cathedral to feature frescoes celebrating armed forces
Church is latest example of symbiosis between church and military patriotism
NewsIn the frame
Getty announces grants to shore up modern buildings
The conservation projects include the National Art Schools in Havana, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California.
NewsArchitecture
Thermal spa developer buys Frida Escobedo's Serpentine Pavilion 2018
Structure will be re-installed as part of Therme Group's art and architecture initiative
NewsMuseums
South London Gallery unveils new £4m annexe in Victorian fire station
Historic space, transformed by 6a architects, opens with a group show on humour
NewsArchitecture
Renzo Piano designs replacement for collapsed Genoa bridge
Since the Morandi tragedy, architect "can’t think of anything else but that bridge"
NewsArchitecture
'This was no accident', says architect Renzo Piano about Genoa bridge collapse
Italy lacks effective site diagnosis, he tells Italian newspaper La Repubblica
ReviewBooks
Henry I of Haiti: the little-known story of a king and his amazing building spree
A short but fascinating book about a man immortalised through architecture
NewsConservation
Turkey's Göbekli Tepe: is this the world’s first architecture?
Scholars say the organisation needed to build the 12,000-year-old temple may mark the beginnings of class society and patriarchy
ReviewBooks
Picture perfect: a 'sumptuous' book on Pre-Raphaelite stained glass
While its terminology is unsteady, the scholarship and production values of this sequel volume are exceptional
ReviewBooks
How to force historians to use their eyes: book urges academics to 'take art more seriously'
Princeton University's Theodore K. Rabb says more visual materials—not only written records—should be explored
ReviewBooks
Pull up a pew: vast volume surveys church cabinetmaking in 17th- and 18th-century Austria
Illuminating historical overviews and a mass of documentary research covers an under-studied subject
NewsRussia
Putin praises Moscow's urban development in wake of World Cup success
But Russian president's remarks at eighth Moscow Urban Forum angered preservationists
PreviewExhibitions
How Yugoslavia’s architecture tried to cement a national identity
Exhibition at New York's MoMA aims to show how monumental buildings contributed to a “collective civic space in a multi-ethnic society”
NewsRestoration
The Glasgow School of Art dilemma: rebuild, leave in ruins or design a whole new school?
Alumni at odds over how to move forward after fire gutted Mackintosh’s masterpiece
NewsHeritage
Bauhaus in Belsize Park: Gropius, Breuer and Moholy-Nagy honoured in London
Blue plaque installed on Grade-I-listed Isokon Building honours the Modernist artists and architects
NewsRestoration
There be dragons (again) after £5m Great Pagoda renovation at Kew Gardens
Eighty of the gaudy monsters have been recreated for the 18th-century tower at London's royal botanic gardens
NewsUnesco
Mumbai’s Victorian Gothic and Art Deco business district declared a Unesco World Heritage Site
British-era buildings in historic Fort area nominated by “several citizens’ groups”
NewsMuseums
Stockholm's revamped ArkDes centre champions design's role in public life
New exhibition and project space put spotlight on civic activism and emerging voices
ReviewBooks
Cottaging—an acquired taste? New book looks at England’s once-popular Cottage Orné style
An enlightening survey on the story of English architecture and the quintessential country house
NewsConservation
Britain's Post-Modern architecture receives protected heritage status
From a private residence inspired by the cosmos to a commercial building with curves: Historic England adds 17 "PoMo" buildings to register
PreviewArt Basel 2018
Basilea: Turn on, tune in and chill at the Messeplatz
Creative Time’s Art Basel project abounds with everything from gravel deposits to DJ-led meditations
NewsArt Basel 2018
Giacometti’s chaotic Paris studio brought back to life
Reconstruction at heart of new research centre preserves spirit of artist’s cluttered creative space
CommentLeaders
Sydney’s flagship museum is entirely focused on building a costly extension. Why?
Unless the Art Gallery of New South Wales begins to focus more on exhibitions, there is every reason to believe that Sydney Modern will be a gigantic and costly flop
AnalysisVenice
Venice: a city at a cultural crossroads
As the Venice Architecture Biennale opens, the Venetian journalist Enrico Tantucci analyses culture in the city through the Biennale, historic buildings, the Accademia and the Arsenale
NewsThree to see
Three to see: Venice Architecture Biennale
From a church divided by concrete walls to a dose of Brexit washed down with cups of tea
NewsChina
Massive arts district to launch in 2019 in valley near Beijing
“Eco-city” announced at Venice Architecture Biennale will include a museum, artists’ studios and an art park
NewsBruges Triennial
In Bruges: sea plastic, Chinese crabs and a Spanish pool take centre stage at triennial
Commissions for the second edition of the Bruges Triennial are closely linked with the city’s famous canals
NewsMuseums
Virginia University’s $41m kunsthalle aims to bridge town-gown divide
Richmond University's fine arts programmes are amongst highest-ranked in the US
PreviewExhibitions
Monet's urban obsession explored in major new London show
National Gallery exhibition, which includes Rouen cathedral paintings, reveals another side of French Impressionist
News
Italian far right wants to turn Fascist HQ into mega-museum
The Lega party—which may soon be in power—believes that Italy, through its culture, can lead the world
InterviewArt Basel in Hong Kong 2018
Collector's Eye: William Lim
The Hong Kong-based architect tells us what art he's bought and why
NewsOpenings
Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art to open in London in September
Mika Rottenberg solo show and Chicago Imagist exhibition in the pipeline
NewsBuilding projects
Tretyakov and Rem Koolhaas have designs on Moscow's vast Soviet exhibition space
The Central House of Artists is set to be the largest exhibition venue in Russia
NewsArchitecture
Ellsworth Kelly’s final work—and only building—opens in Texas
Artist donated his design for Austin to the Blanton Museum in 2015, the year he died
NewsConservation
Urgent action needed to save Russia’s wooden architecture
Grassroots activists are leading a campaign to preserve the country’s unique, but sadly neglected, built heritage
NewsSerpentine Galleries
Mexican architect is youngest-ever designer of Serpentine Pavilion
Frida Escobedo will combine Mexican and British influences for the temporary structure in Hyde Park
NewsBuilding projects
Jamie Fobert Architects to transform London's National Portrait Gallery
Firm behind recent expansion of Tate St Ives and Kettle's Yard will lead major £35.5m development
NewsBuilding projects
Royal College of Art's new £108m campus gets green light and will focus on art, technology and science
Building designed by Herzog & de Meuron will be a centre for robotics and drone technology
NewsMuseums
Hayward Gallery’s renovation breathes new life—and brings more daylight—into Brutalist landmark
London gallery celebrates 50th anniversary and reopens with Andreas Gurksy retrospective
NewsConservation
Kurt Schwitters’s Merz Barn in Lake District up for sale
Chinese collector may step in to save the barn, after Arts Council rejects funding bid
NewsMuseums
South London Gallery’s new Fire Station annexe to open in September
Exhibition spaces and an artist’s studio have been created in the Victorian building that was donated by an anonymous benefactor
NewsAcquisitions
Serpentine 2017 pavilion snapped up by Malaysian buyer
Francis Kéré’s structure in London will head to Kuala Lumpur next year in deal struck with Ilham Gallery
NewsObituaries
Vincent Scully, fervent professor of art of architecture, has died, aged 97
His lectures at Yale University inspired generations to think about “the humanity within architecture”, says former student Maya Lin
NewsArchitecture
Gazebo where Tamir Rice was shot is now at Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago
Theaster Gates and his Rebuild Foundation have organised a display and series of conversations around the disassembled structure, with hopes of rebuilding it outdoors this spring
NewsSpain
Gaudi's first masterpiece opens as public museum in Barcelona
Amidst political turmoil in Catalonia, opening of Casa Vicens could bring "a moment of peace"
CommentCathedral of Notre Dame
Stone is cool: Gothic vaulting probably saved Notre Dame from total destruction
Tragic fire destroys the roof, but vaulting saves the interior
Donald Lee