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Lonnie G. Bunch III at the Civil Rights Summit, April 9, 2014. Photo: Lauren Gerson / LBJ Presidential Library. CC BY 2.0.

What Will Lonnie Bunch’s Legacy Be?

In his 38-years working for the Smithsonian museums, departing Secretary Lonnie Bunch, has led the Smithsonian through expansions and turbulent times, standing firm in the telling of America’s history

Lucrezia Motta
Raqib Shaw. Photo: Joseph Sinclair, courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London, Paris, Salzburg, Milan, Seoul.

The Painter: Raqib Shaw Embraces the Night

For his first UK solo exhibition since 2015, the Kashmir-born painter draws on childhood memories, Kashmiriyat philosophy, Shakespeare and a world in turmoil to consider what the darkness can reveal

Lucrezia Motta
Image courtesy Berlin Art Week. Photo: Joe Clark

Berlin Is Learning to Live With the Cuts

Berlin Art Week finds a city remaking its cultural economy, as institutions seek private money, galleries test new models and artists are squeezed out. For Messy Business, Jeni Fulton reports on the ground

Jeni Fulton
Edward Norton as the Narrator in Fight Club (1999), directed by David Fincher. Courtesy 20th Century Fox

Help! I Hate My...Ennui

Art world Agony Aunt Charlotte Jansen offers solace to an art worker who fears she has lost the love for everything that surrounds art – and maybe the work itself

Charlotte Jansen
Richard Drew’s The Falling Man, photographed in New York on 11 September 2001. © Richard Drew / AP, courtesy AP

The Art 9/11 Made

Before artists could respond to 9/11, images of the event had already circled the world. Twenty-five years later, art still struggles to represent a uniquely cinematic catastrophe, one experienced and understood largely through its visual record

Tom Seymour
Igor Tulchinsky at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 2023. Photo: Yuccata86 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

How Is the Bayeux Tapestry’s £5m Backer Linked to the IDF?

Igor Tulchinsky’s name is attached to one of the British Museum’s biggest ever exhibitions. An investment operation he funded has also reportedly backed Israeli "deep-tech" defence technologies linked to the Israel Defense Forces

Tom Seymour