9 h. ago Let it reign: The best wet weather outfit ideas for women from coats to boots and bags

London’s rain isn’t going anywhere, so we might as well master the art of dressing for it. Saskia Kemsley presents her foolproof guide to wet-weather dressing

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4 d. ago Leaky roofs, collapsed walls, mega debts: when Donald Judd, art’s master minimalist, tried architecture

Weary of the New York scene, and keen to focus on architecture, the artist started buying up properties to play with in a tiny Texas town. Trouble was, he couldn’t stop. We take the tour of his Marfa creationsA colossal cliff of green-tinted glass stretches along the side of a railway line, like a minty glacier greeting arriving trains. The glazing shimmers strangely in the light, its surface variously matt and gloss, wrapping offices and atriums together inside a changeable crystal skin. There’s a reason it looks unlike a typical office block – and it’s not just the Swiss precision.Completed in 2000, the facade of Peter Merian Haus in Basel is the largest, and yet perhaps least known, work of Donald Judd, one of the 20th century’s most important minimalist artists. If you have ever pondered a polished aluminium box in an art museum, or encountered a gnomic stack of coloured acrylic rectangles projecting from a wall, they were probably by him. But few realise that Judd’s prolific ou...

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4 d. ago Leaky roofs, collapsed walls, mega debts: when art’s master minimalist Donald Judd tried architecture

Weary of the New York scene, and keen to focus on architecture, the artist started buying up properties to play with in a tiny Texas town. Trouble was, he couldn’t stop. We take the tour of his Marfa creationsA colossal cliff of green-tinted glass stretches along the side of a railway line, like a minty glacier greeting arriving trains. The glazing shimmers strangely in the light, its surface variously matt and gloss, wrapping offices and atriums together inside a changeable crystal skin. There’s a reason it looks unlike a typical office block – and it’s not just the Swiss precision.Completed in 2000, the facade of Peter Merian Haus in Basel is the largest, and yet perhaps least known, work of Donald Judd, one of the 20th century’s most important minimalist artists. If you have ever pondered a polished aluminium box in an art museum, or encountered a gnomic stack of coloured acrylic rectangles projecting from a wall, they were probably by him. But few realise that Judd’s prolific ou...

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5 d. ago Michaelina Wautier: the female Flemish artist now seen as an old master

Opening in Vienna on Tuesday, a new exhibition gathers her works into one show for the first time The first time that Katljine von der Stighelen cast her eyes over The Triumph of Bacchus, it made her question her own judgement.In 1993, the Dutch art historian and Rubens expert was visiting Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches museum for a conference and had asked to see a van Dyck in the archives. On her way out, she caught a glimpse of a vast, 2.7 metre x 3.5 metre oil painting of a wild and drunken parade writhing with naked bodies young and old. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Why Meghan has suddenly been silenced: Once a loud and proud social justice warrior, she's now (whisper it) quite boring. Experts say it's all part of a master plan

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, was once weighing in on women's rights, gun control and politics. But now the 44-year-old appears to have different priorities.

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2 w. ago Garden of unearthly delights: inside the eerie underground lair for ‘master of mobiles’ Alexander Calder

The great kinetic artist has never been properly celebrated in his home town of Philadelphia – until now. But is a $90m subterranean labyrinth, created by Herzog & de Meuron, really the answer?A shimmering metallic wall slices through a scrubby mound on the edge of a highway in Philadelphia, like a long steel blade cutting into the earth. Halfway along its length, this silvery barrier flips up, recalling the lid of a giant laptop, forming an entrance canopy that beckons you inside. As you ascend the planted knoll, you find great furrows gouged into the ground, jagged concrete sinkholes from which the peaks of colourful sculptures protrude.Welcome to Calder Gardens, an otherworldly place conceived by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron to celebrate the work of Philadelphia-born Alexander Calder, master of mobiles. It is one of the strangest cultural complexes to be built anywhere in recent years. On an unpromising site no larger than a football pitch, wedged between two highw...

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3 w. ago The Guardian view on the ‘twin’ Vermeers: how to spot a masterpiece | Editorial

Two versions of the Guitar Player raise important questions of attribution. In our age of fake images, authenticity in art is more vital than ever“How do you know how much to pay if you don’t know what it is worth?” So ends Theft: A Love Story by the Australian novelist Peter Carey. This scabrous riff on the slipperiness of cultural value in the international art scene asks: is a copy so good that even experts mistake it for the original painting still a fake?Questions of authenticity and attribution are behind a new display by English Heritage at Kenwood House in London to mark the 350th anniversary of the death of Johannes Vermeer. For the first time in 300 years, two nearly identical paintings of the Guitar Player, one signed by the Dutch master, the other on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and until recently believed to be a 17th- or 18th-century copy, will hang side by side. Experts have puzzled over the relationship between the two paintings for 100 years. Now visito...

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3 w. ago Arijit Singh at Tottenham Hotspur review: An education in soulful vocals

A near perfect gig by Bollywood’s master musician - the first Indian-born artist to play at a UK stadium - was marred by sound problems and unnecessary dancers

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