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4 days ago

My Days: Orlando Gibbons and Nico Muhly album review – a luminous tribute

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The English composer died 400 years ago; this new collection commemorates the enduring power of his music; Muhly’s My Days, a ritualised memory piece abou…

6 days ago

Fancy a masterpiece? Just pop one in your basket! V&A’s new open-access outpost will thrill art-lovers

V&A East Storehouse, London
The Victoria & Albert’s new warehouse boasts a mind-boggling 250,000 artefacts. Our art critic tries its ‘order an object’ service and gets intimate with some national trea…

17 days ago

Gucci goes alfresco in Florence as it awaits rebirth with buzzy new creative boss

Struggling label produces upbeat parade of greatest hits on home turf while Demna completes stint at Balenciaga

If rebirth is what you want then Florence, home of the Renaissance, is a good place to s…

19 days ago

Rachel Roddy’s recipe for courgette, onion and chickpea flour bake, or scarpaccia | A kitchen in Rome

Courgette and chickpea flour fritter-pancakes that take inspiration from both the Renaissance and the modern TikTok age

Like millions of people all over the world, ideas are often planted in my head b…

34 days ago

Beyoncé review – ever-evolving star kicks off electrifying Cowboy Carter tour

SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, California

The singer delivers a rousing, seven-act spectacle as she performs many of her country songs on stage for the first time while also harking back to her previous dan…

38 days ago

As Rome gears up for spectacle of Pope Francis’s funeral, mourners hail his humility

Sadness at pope’s passing is tinged with giddiness at holding world’s gaze with a pageant for the ages

Beneath the basilica’s soaring Renaissance dome, the body in the coffin looked unexpectedly small…

40 days ago

Raphael’s School of Athens review – rewarding study of Renaissance fresco

During the latest in Howard Burton’s Masterpiece series, the art historian turns his low-tech but scholarly attention to Raphael’s interior decoration in the Vatican palace

Here is the latest in the s…

60 days ago

Giuseppe Penone review – an ecstatic realm where trees and humans merge

Serpentine, London
From the moment we inhale the scent of this remarkable show – in which trees blast open and boulders perch on branches – the Italian artist intoxicates us like a shaman communing wi…

3 months ago

From wildlife in Andalucía to an alternative camino in Galicia: readers’ travel tips on unsung Spain

Our tipsters share their favourite seafood haunts, pristine beaches and under-the-radar cities

The city and the province of Jaén can be overlooked by tourists heading to nearby Granada or Córdoba. Tha…

Watch out for the bare Botticellis! In the craziest trigger warning yet, students are told they'll encounter 'images of nudity' in two of the Italian master's greatest works

The University of Roehampton warned undergraduates taking a module on medieval and Renaissance gods and heroes they will find 'images of nudity' in The Birth of Venus.

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