Culture: Art

Night at the Museum

As the guardians of the souls of our communities, local cultural institutions must fight and adapt in the face of budget cuts.

Cold war modern

Remnants of the wall are luring tourists to Berlin

Waking the dead

For Walter Benjamin, history was more than a series of dispassionate facts. He showed how the struggle for the past shapes our future

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End of the irony age

Once shocking, much of the work in Tate’s latest survey of pop art now seems tired. It shows how inured we’ve become to big-bucks banality

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She’s lost control

When Sophie Calle’s lover dumped her by email, she turned life into art. Fisun Güner on a woman who binds the helpless and confessional to the coolly conceptual

Graphic images

Ed Ruscha's paintings play with the typography of the US

Get thee from the nunnery

A landmark exhibition in London shows priceless pieces of religious art that have never before been allowed out of Spain

Warhol: the God years

The artist’s religious faith sets his work in a new light

“All will be done again as it was in far-off times”

Surveying the fragments of an obliterated civilisation at the British Museum’s Moctezuma exhibition, Tom Holland is haunted by the parallels between our vulnerable globalised world and that of the doomed Aztecs

My Name Is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic