Anna Somers Cocks
From the archive | A shared pride: the Rothschilds yesterday, today and tomorrow
Jacob, Lord Rothschild, is one of the great benefactors of the English museum scene in both time and money
Richard Armstrong interview: Guggenheim's director on its projects in Helsinki, Abu Dhabi and back home in New York
Foundation and Finnish partners seek best architect for proposed Nordic satellite while Frank Gehry refines plans for Saadiyat Island museum <br>
The Rothschild collection that got away
The British Museum reopens the Waddesdon Bequest Wunderkammer, funded by Lord Rothschild
Brian Sewell travels across India—with a donkey
Anna Somers Cocks is charmed by the story of Mr B, accompanied by a donkey and a stout umbrella
Artist Christoph Büchel’s 'Mosque' played frivolously with fire
Far from furthering tolerance, this biennale project has irritated intercultural relations
Artist Christoph Büchel’s 'Mosque' played frivolously with fire
Far from furthering tolerance, this biennale project has irritated intercultural relations
Icelandic pavilion: Venice gets its first (temporary) mosque
Christoph Büchel addresses the lack of a mosque in the Italian city
All aboard the Safina boat for Biennale broadcasting—and cultural radio in Dubai afterwards
Hi, Biennale Crowd: did you know Venice is dying for these six reasons?
What you can do despite too many cruise ships, rising sea level and with no one in charge
Ancestral home of the last Knight of Glin for sale
Restored with passion by Desmond FitzGerald, co-founder of the Irish Georgian society, it is on the market at €6.5m, contents extra
Migrant workers in Abu Dhabi lose out as subcontractors exploit loophole
New York University promises to close “compliance gap” on Saadiyat Island as museum projects come under fresh scrutiny
Renewal in the Arab world to come from women and the young, says French president
Last month’s conference at the Institut du Monde Arabe acquired special meaning after Charlie Hebdo
Academic warmth and icy antiquities at Kallos gallery launch
Lorne Thyssen's antiquities gallery opened in London’s Davies Street last month
Scholar-collector John Hardy’s historic pieces for sale at Christie’s
A selection of objects with exceptional histories
Sharjah looks East and West during 11th biennial
Biennial embraces divergent ways of seeing the world, despite growing censorship in the Gulf
Censorship of Tiananmen Square photograph in Shanghai
Officials ask M97 gallery to remove work
A true icon: Pietro Annigoni’s 1955 portrait of Queen Elizabeth II
The story of the royal portrait that has most deeply embedded itself in British consciousness and was adopted all over the Commonwealth
Gian Enzo Sperone: 'The nature of the art market has changed for ever'
The Italian dealer and co-founder of Sperone Westwater spoke to us in 2011 about botany, the difference between European and US galleries and why the "big gallery" systems won't last
Anna Mariani talk links Bracelli with Dalí
A review of 17th century Genoese artist and the 20th century Surrealist
Inside Piranesi’s prisons on show at the Venice Architecture Biennale
An immersive, digital film at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini reimagines the artist’s dark fantasies as if in three dimensions
From the archive | £5m Guercino returns to Spencer House, its historic home
Purchase begins final phase of Jacob Rothschild’s visionary restoration of one of London’s few surviving aristocratic town palaces
The Warburg Institute is fighting for its life as University of London cuts corners
The famous library founded by Aby Warburg for a special kind of research may lose its essential nature
No, not Madonna the singer in the V&A's new Medieval and Renaissance galleries
How the Victoria & Albert Museum’s new Medieval and Renaissance galleries have dealt with our ignorance of Christianity
Are we colonialising Middle Eastern art?
As the Middle East increasingly becomes a producer and consumer of contemporary art, the role of the West as 'tastemaker' grows progressively more troubling
Forty years of Art Basel: From Stübli to global hub
Artists, buyers, sellers, organisers, critics and restaurateurs have recorded their memories of Art Basel’s first four decades
"A new kind of freedom in looking": Remembering the birth of Art Basel on its fortieth anniversary
Artists, buyers, sellers, organisers, critics and restaurateurs have recorded their memories of Art Basel’s first four decades
Interview with Ellsworth Kelly: “The freedom of colours in space”
Speaking with the American painter in Basel on colour, geometry, and learning how to see
Arcangelo Sassolino: Artists at Art Basel Miami Beach 2007
Visitors, beware of the creepy crawlies